[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] How the migrant crisis is sparking an American civil war: TODD BENSMAN's dispatch from a militarized Texas farm - where Biden's federal agents are sabotaging the state's desperate border enforcement
U.S. Border Patrol leased a private pecan farm, at taxpayer expense, to help them process illegal immigrants entering America through Eagle Pass, Texas
An enraged Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded by dispatching officers to barricade the farm's gate and destroy a ramp leading migrants up from the river
The wasteful, ludicrious conflict pits two American forces against each other and it's a glimpse into a truly dysfunctional border crisis
[An Nahar] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... mission in Libya has expressed its concern over "continued abductions, arbitrary arrests, and disappearances of citizens and public figures by various security actors" in the war-ravaged country.
Among those who have gone missing is Faraj Abderrahmane Boumtari, a former finance minister.
On Wednesday, Boumtari "was reportedly detained at Mitiga Airport and taken to an undisclosed location", the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said in a statement.
It added that "five members of the High Council of State have been reportedly banned from travelling at the same airport" in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
UNSMIL warned that such acts create "a climate of fear, promote tensions between communities and tribes, and have serious implications for the unification of national institutions".
Oil-rich Libya plunged into over a decade of chaos after a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed uprising toppled and killed dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... in 2011.
Since then, the North African country has been divided, with one administration based in Tripoli and the other in the east where it is backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... .
The U.N. urged the Libyan authorities and security organizations to "release all those arbitrarily detained, ensure independent investigations for all alleged extra-legal detentions and abductions and bring the perpetrators to justice."
News of the Boumtari's arrest by security agents at the airport on Wednesday quickly circulated, but has not yet been confirmed by the authorities.
Members of Boumtari's tribe, the Zouaya from the southeast, threatened Thursday to block oil terminals in the east if he was not released.
But reports on social media on Thursday said that two oilfields in the south, at al-Sharara and al-Fil, had already been blockaded by protesters.
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[An Nahar] Nigeria's new President Bola Tinubu has announced his government's plan to pay $10 a month to poor households to ease the growing hardship caused by the scrapping of subsidies on gasoline.
In a letter to the Nigerian Senate, which was read during Thursday's sitting, Tinubu said 12 million households will benefit from the handout for a period of six months. The government plans to fund it through an $800 million World Bank loan for which Tinubu is seeking legislators' approval.
"It is expected that the program will stimulate economic activities in the informal sector and improve nutrition, health, education, and human capital development of beneficiaries' households," he said of the social welfare initiative.
Meanwhile, Tinubu declared a state of emergency on food security and directed the release of grains to households.
Dele Alake, his spokesman, said that "as with most emergencies, there are immediate, medium- and long-term interventions and solutions. In the immediate term, we intend to deploy some savings from the fuel subsidy removal into the agricultural sector focusing on revamping the sector."
The president scrapped the gasoline subsidy on his first day in office at the end of May, ending a decades-long program that made gasoline affordable for many but which authorities said was expensive and economically unsustainable. The subsidies cost the government an estimated $10 billion in 2022.
He said his government would use the money usually budgeted for subsidies in other vital projects. However, the end of the subsidy program more than doubled the price of gasoline, resulting in severe hardship for citizens already battling high inflation of 22.4% and where at least 63% of the more than 210 million population face "multidimensional poverty," according to the national statistics agency.
Tinubu said the planned $10 monthly handout would have "a multiplier effect" on about 60 million individuals, though some Nigerians criticized it as inadequate and unsustainable.
In Kano state, the economic hub of northern Nigeria, traders said the country's cost of living crisis had crashed their returns as sales dwindled and the commodity prices went up.
The cost of transportation has also increased by more than 100% in Kano city since May when the subsidy was scrapped, residents said, as is the case across most parts of Nigeria where most of the residents rely on public transport.
"We don't sell anything anymore, so how do you expect me to be feeding my family?" asked Yusuf Ibrahim, who sells clothes in the city. "The government is not doing what we elected them to do."
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The Nigerian Army asked all terrorists and bandits, especially those in the Northwestern region, to surrender unconditionally, stressing that there will be no negotiating with those who threatened the nation’s peace.https://t.co/ALxTSp0bzDpic.twitter.com/tqxIjkk2vI
District Heads and communities in Zamfara State were advised to form groups that will protect their communities when there is a distress call before the arrival of the troops at the troubled areas.
[IsraelTimes] Police found hit list with at least one name, tracked Iranian suspect as he tried to set up a base for attacks in Ottoman Turkish north, where Cypriot authorities are largely powerless
Cyprus police investigations support claims by the Mossad spy agency that an Iranian-backed hit squad planned to kill Israelis and other Jews in the east Mediterranean island nation, an official said Friday.
The intelligence official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Cypriot police had tracked an Iranian national identified as Yusef Shahbazi Abbasalilo Continued on Page 49
[IsraelTimes] Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush and Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... bring number of politicians skipping president’s July 19 speech to four
Three US politicians said they planned to boycott Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s speech to a joint session of Congress next week, joining a colleague who scoffed that there was "no way in hell" she would attend. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush’s offices each confirmed that they would not be attending the July 19 speech, backing Rep. Ilhan Omar Continued on Page 49
[IsraelTimes] Omar Alkattoul allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS and researched mass shootings
The New Jersey teen charged with making threats to synagogues and other Jewish institutions last year has pleaded guilty.
Omar Alkattoul, 19, of Sayreville, was arrested in November, shortly after many Jewish institutions in New Jersey, including synagogues and schools, briefly shuttered amid warnings from the FBI about a "broad threat."
Jewish organizations were encouraged to take extra precautions and follow security measures. Some cities sent additional coppers to guard synagogues and schools.
The FBI announced a day after its initial warning that the threat was no longer active and a suspect had been identified. A week later, Alkattoul was arrested and charged, with the US Attorney’s Office alleging that he had pledged allegiance to ISIS as well as researched mass shootings and how to obtain firearms.
Alkattoul had written an murderous Moslem manifesto titled "When Swords Collide," which he shared with at least six people via social media. The manifesto, which was written as if it were made to be found after he had already attacked a synagogue, extensively detailed Alkattoul’s hatred of Jews. But Alkattoul was unclear, in messages with other Death Eaters and with comments to Sherlocks, whether he actually planned to carry out his threats.
Alkattoul will be sentenced November 14. He faces up to five years in prison.
The New Jersey incident came at a time of high alert in the Jewish community — just weeks after the rapper Kanye West made several antisemitic comments and less than a year after synagogue-goers in Colleyville, Texas, were held hostage by a man who broke into their Shabbat services. Later in November, two men who had made online threats to "shoot up a synagogue" were arrested in New York City’s Penn Station.
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How if only we can get a Judge to Sentence BLoM, Anti-FA, and other LSD's for threats and actual physical assaults against peaceful Caucasian, Hispanic and Asian constitutional following Citizens
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It does still accomplish the goal of terrorizing the unbelievers, so should be punished harshly, but — despite that autistic Israeli lad who earnt a pretty penny emailing threats to Jewish organizations halfway round the world at a rate of X threats per dollar — this kind of thing smacks as much of obnoxious teen fun as it does of schizophrenic acting on his hallucinations.
[An Nahar] Pakistain's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday launched the construction of a 1,200-megawatt Chinese-designed nuclear energy project, which will be built at a cost of $3.5 billion as part of the government efforts to generate more clean energy in the Islamic nation.
The ceremony marking the start of the project comes less than a month after Pakistain signed an agreement with China's National Nuclear Corporation Overseas in the capital, Islamabad, to construct a Hualong One reactor — a third-generation nuclear reactor and is considered safer because of the latest security features.
Pakistain and China are longtime allies. Pakistain's relations with Beijing are so close that its leadership calls China their "Iron Brother." China is also building roads, bridges, power plants, and railways to link its far west with the Chinese-built port of Gwadar on the Indian Ocean.
The nuclear power plant known as Chashma-5 will be constructed at a site along the left embankment of the fast-flowing Indus River in Mianwali, a district in the eastern Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... province. The site is already home to four Chinese-supplied nuclear power plants that were built in recent decades.
Sharif, in his televised remarks at a gathering of Pak and Chinese officials in Mianwali, said the Chashma-5 nuclear energy project by itself was a "huge milestone, a huge success story, and a wonderful symbol of the cooperation between two great friends."
Pakistain will get clean, efficient and cheaper energy at the completion of the project, he said.
Pakistain got its first nuclear power plant from Canada and currently generates only 8% of its electricity from nuclear power plants. It plans to increase that figure to 20% by 2030.
In recent months, China gave $5 billion in loans to Pakistain to help it unlock a bailout from the International Monetary Fund to tackle a serious economic crisis. The IMF approved a $3-billion bailout Wednesday, after keeping it on hold since December.
On Friday, Sharif said his country will never forget the Chinese financial assistance that was given to his country when it faced a risk of default. It was a "very valuable contribution at a very difficult time, and the nation will never forget it," he said.
Sharif, whose term as premier ends in August, said Pakistain is no longer at risk of a default.
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Given Pakistan's miserable history, this project will probably be as successful as USAID's funding of a Pakistan dam project.
[GreaterKashmir] Claims 365 days a year pass off peacefully without school, college closures in J&K.
A major accomplishment. Slicing this particular Gordian knot has worked out well for India.
Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Friday said that earlier almost every year, Kashmir would witness routine bandh calls
...bandh is Hindi for the Gujarati term hartal, defined below. Mahatma Gandhi introduced it into general use, as that was his native tongue...
and that gone are days when school and colleges would remain closed in the Valley. He said thathartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... calls are a thing of past and now 365 days of a year pass off peacefully with schools and colleges functioning normally every day.
"Gone are the days when people would give hartal calls which resulted in closure of schools and colleges in Kashmir. Today, all 365 days of the year pass off peacefully with schools, colleges, universities functioning normally. Hartals is a thing of the past in the Valley where business of all sectors is flourishing and economy growing," the LG said addressing a gathering of students at Amar Singh College Srinagar, as reported by news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO).
He said people of Kashmir are reaping the benefits of peace. "One can see youth playing music at Jhelum river front and students enjoying reading as well," he said.
The LG said that without peace, development and progress wasn’t possible in J&K. "Youth are the future of J&K and the country. We need your support to take forward J&K on all fronts," he said.
He said J&K is part of the growing economy of India. "Indian doctors made us proud by providing vaccines against Covid to dozens of foreign countries," he said and sought students’ support in making India the strongest nations across the globe.
[AlAhram] Some 289 children are known to have died in the first half of 2023 while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Friday.
The figure is double that recorded in the first six months of 2022, the UN children's agency UNICEF said, as it called for expanded safe, legal and accessible pathways for children to seek protection in Europe.
Verena Knaus, UNICEF's global lead on migration and displacement, said the true figures were likely to be higher as many shipwrecks on the central Mediterranean leave no survivors or go unrecorded.
"The number of children who have bit the dust while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... has doubled in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year," she said.
"In the first six months of this year, we estimate 11,600 children made the crossing -- again, nearly twice as many as in the same period in 2022."
UNICEF said that in the first three months of 2023, around 3,300 children -- 71 percent of all children arriving in Europe on the central Mediterranean route -- were recorded as unaccompanied or separated.
The figure is three times higher than in the same period last year.
"These children need to know they are not alone. World leaders must urgently act to demonstrate the undeniable worth of children's lives, moving beyond condolences to resolute pursuit of effective solutions," said Knaus.
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The question is, how may millions and summits are needed to combat thiswith nothing ever getting accomplished? May be only my opinion , but fuck em.
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Sounds like all of the Senate and House hearings. Anything happen to Fauci? Walensky? Wray? Brennan? But Jim Jordan sure cares about "the American people".
[NY Post] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to a Tel Aviv hospital Saturday after fainting at home — and the leader chalked the episode up to not staying hydrated after spending time in the scorching sun.
The 73-year-old conservative — Israel’s longest-serving leader — was in “good condition” as he underwent a series of tests, his office said.
The prime minister had passed out while at home in Cesarea and hit his head after complaining about chest pain, sources at Sheba Medical Center told the Jerusalem Post.
Netanyahu was fully conscious when he arrived at the emergency room, they said — but doctors will perform a brain scan and evaluate his heart rhythm to check for further injury.
The prime minister seemingly blamed Israel’s recent hot weather, which has seen temperatures in the mid to high 80s, later Saturday.
“Yesterday I spent time with my wife at the Sea of Galilee, in the sun, without a hat and water. Wasn’t a good idea,” Bibi said, according to NBC News. “I want to thank everyone for their concern, thank God I feel good.”
His son Avner accompanied him to the hospital and his wife Sara was expected to join them.
Netanyahu’s office said he suffered from dehydration will stay at Sheba Medical Center overnight for observation on the advice of his doctors, the Times of Israel reported.
Netanyahu has served multiple terms as prime minister, totaling 15 years in office.
He reclaimed power in December, forming a right-wing government with support from religious and nationalist political parties in the Knesset just 18 months after he was ousted.
President Biden has made a pointed effort to keep Netanyahu, a warm ally of former President Trump, at arms’ length — refusing to invite him to the White House, even after China’s Xi Jinping asked him to make a state visit to Beijing last month.
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[IsraelTimes] A fence built by Israel around the northern part of Ghajar — that sits in Lebanese territory — is leading to renewed warnings by terror group against Israeli annexation of town
The little village of Ghajar has been a sore point between Israel and Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... for years, split in two by the border between Lebanon and the Israeli Golan Heights. But after a long period of calm, the dispute has begun to heat up again.
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[Rudaw] Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... on Thursday announced that Damascus has authorized the UN to continue delivering aid to rebel-held areas northwest of the country through a key aid route that was closed a few days prior after a Security Council stalemate.
The Security Council on Thursday failed to extend an agreement which has allowed UN to deliver relief to northwest Syria through the Bab al-Hawa crossing since 2014 after Russia vetoed the draft, sparking international concern for the millions of aid-dependent residents in the area.
"The government of the Syrian Arab Republic has taken the sovereign decision to grant the United Nations and its specialized agencies permission to use Bab al-Hawa crossing to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in need in northwest Syria, in full cooperation and coordination with the Syrian government, for the period of six months, starting from July 13, 2023," read a letter from Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh to UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... seen by Rudaw English.
Sabbagh stated that Damascus will continue to work with the UN in humanitarian work, in a way that would contribute to Syria’s recovery and rehabilitation, stressing that international sanctions on the Syrian government must not "interfere with humanitarian relief operations benefitting the Syrians, or their access to basic services.
The Syrian ambassador also warned that the UN should not communicate with the groups in charge of northwest Syria, which he labeled as "terrorist organizations."
The cross-border mechanism is the only way UN aid, including food, medicine, water, and other critical resources, can be delivered to northwest Syria without having to traverse through areas controlled by the Syrian government.
The province of Idlib in northwest Syria is the last pocket of rebel-held territory in the region and is mainly controlled by Hay’at 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), which has been internationally recognized as a terrorist organization.
The area’s residents, which include families displaced from across the country, also suffer from dire economic conditions and are heavily reliant on aid for their basic necessities. According to the UN, the humanitarian assistance provided through the cross-border mechanism reached "an average of 2.7 million people every month" in 2022.
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[An Nahar] The Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... is hoping to agree with Hezbollah on a presidential candidate other than Suleiman Franjieh or Jihad Azour, an FPM MP said.
"Dialogue means an intention to meet with the other over something that satisfies both parties, and therefore agreeing on a third candidate," MP Cesar Abi Khalil told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, after the two parties announced that they have resumed dialogue.
"The resumption of the dialogue with Hezbollah comes without preconditions and it is not over a certain candidate, but rather over a program and over a figure which would not be provocative to any party," the politician added.
Pro-Hezbollah political analyst Qassem Qassir meanwhile told Asharq al-Awsat that "the resumption of dialogue between the FPM and Hezbollah took place through an agreement on a new vision based on proposing a host of names, including Franjieh, for discussion."
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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
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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
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...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly....jpg "Kashmir")
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...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
