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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'Plague Wars' by Mangold and Goldberg, copyright April 2001
[Amazon excerpt] Anthrax. Plague. Smallpox. Ebola. These are the weapons of the future—microscopic organisms produced in laboratories and unleashed on unwitting populations to reproduce, spread, and kill. They are as deadly as atomic bombs, much cheaper to create, and much easier to distribute—inside a warhead on an intercontinental missile, in an aerosol can sprayed in a crowded building, or by a crop-duster flying over a major city. Exposure occurs without warning. Infection from only a few minute particles can mean a ghastly and painful death. The kill rates are staggering.

Modern biological warfare began during the 1930s, when the Japanese Army conducted atrocious experiments on Chinese prisoners using lethal bacteria. During the Cold War, both the Soviet Union and the U.S. rushed to build biological weapons programs. In 1972, the Biological Weapons Convention banned the development of bioweapons, supposedly ending the threat.

But the threat was only beginning. Plague Wars tells the stories of the secret battles that are still being waged in many nations, stories filled with international espionage, deceptions, and treachery. Recently, defectors and covert sources from third-world governments such as Iraq have revealed active biological weapons programs, despite international arms inspectors' attempts to eradicate them. A U.S. war game to prepare for a North Korean biological attack went so horribly wrong that the results are still classified. In South Africa, the use of bioweapons represents one of the last untold secrets of the apartheid battles, while in Zimbabwe, people are still dying of anthrax from the dirty wars of independence fought two decades ago. Fringe cults, apocalyptic madmen, and terrorists groups everywhere claim to own bioweapons, and are threatening to use them. Major Western cities are busily planning defenses against such an attack.

Researched across four continents with exceptional access to many sources from the United Nations, U.S. Department of Defense, and various civilian and military intelligence agencies, and using previously classified government documents, Tom Mangold and Jeff Goldberg have written the definitive account of the state of biological warfare in the world today.
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#1  Unable to get the amazon link to post for some reason.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2021 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Besoeker - you're getting up before Amazon wakes up ☺

AMAZON Plague Wars
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/15/2021 6:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Last time I checked in, the Americans and Soviets Russians still maintain a vial or so of smallpox. A just in case we have to come up with an antidotes should some 'rogue' let the stuff lose again (how many people today have received immunization shots cause some 'professionals' decided the risk from the immunization was greater than the possibility of catching it).

Scroll down to "US military guns keep vanishing, some used in street crimes". Yeah, right. We're all safe, don't worry.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/15/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  AMAZON Plague Wars

Thank you for the link, NN2N1. Article source now fixed — teamwork works! :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/15/2021 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  A day or so ago on the 'Burg there was a notice of the latest full approval given to a new anti-smallpox drug by the FDA for the just-in-case scenario of smallpox being released into the world population.
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Afghanistan
US to 'Keep Pressure' on Daesh, Al Qaeda in Afghanistan: McKenzie
[ToloNews] The head of US Central Command, Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, said on Sunday that the US will seek to "keep pressure" on ISIS and Al Qaeda, the Military Times reported.

"One thing I probably need to emphasize is we will still do everything we can to keep pressure on ISIS and Al Qaeda, from our over-the-horizon locations," McKenzie said in an interview with Military Times.

"That is a task I’ve been given. Those are plans I’m in discussion with now with the secretary of defense. How we will do that, I’ve said before, that will be a very difficult thing to do," he said.

In response to a question about the recent UN report warning that the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
appeared poised to take back control of Afghanistan, McKenzie said: "We still intend to support the Afghan military from just over the horizon. We’re still going to support them with funding."

"We’re going to try very hard to support the Afghan air force over the horizon; some things will come out of the country to be worked on," he said. "I don’t want to minimize this, because I think they’re going to be tested, but we will continue to support them, just not in the way we are supporting them now."

He said: "The fighting is seesaw right now. You know we will do everything we can to help the Afghans going forward within the limits that we have, which is, of course, no boots on the ground. But it’s gonna be really on their shoulders now to stand or fall, and I think they have a fighting chance to do it. That’s what I’ve said before, and we’ll do everything we can to help them."

Asked if the US would provide any combat support to Afghan forces if major cities such as Kabul were at risk of being overrun, he said: "Those are actually, as you will appreciate, policy decisions, not military decisions. I will tell you this. Right now what we’re planning to do after we withdraw is keep pressure on Al Qaeda and ISIS, and that would be what we’d be doing, going back into Afghanistan."

"When those entities presented actionable threats against the United States, we’d be prepared to go in there and take action if our Afghan partners are unable to do that, and that will be the limit of our kinetic actions in Afghanistan," he said.

Asked about China and Russia stepping up efforts in Afghanistan, McKenzie said: "The Chinese, I think they would like to get in for the mass mineral deposits that exist on the ground in Afghanistan and in other places, and that’s their interest."

"I think the Russians have concerns about the spread of terror north through the Stans into Russia. I think both are interested in it. None of them have been particularly supportive of us while we’ve been there, and if we leave, I think they will try to move in to fill what they perceive to be a vacuum," he said.

"They may find that to be harder than they think, though, to actually accomplish," he added.

In April US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
announced that US troops will leave Afghanistan by September 11.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  "How we will do that, I’ve said before, that will be a very difficult thing to do..."
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 06/15/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||


NATO Leaders Agree to Maintain Funding for Kabul Airport
[ToloNews] NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
leaders at the Brussels summit on Monday agreed to maintain funding for the Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance...
International Airport in Kabul after the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan ends.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
French President Emmanuel Macron: Erdogan assured us that all foreign forces must leave Libya as soon as possible
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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#1  I forget, what exactly did the Big E call Macron?
Posted by: Spoter B || 06/15/2021 0:07 Comments || Top||


Libyan MP: Turkish Defence Minister’s Visit ‘Humiliating Matter’
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Great White North
Terror charges laid against accused in Canada Muslim attack
[AlAhram] Veltman also faces one count of attempted murder due to terrorism activity
Is this right, or is he being railroaded to calm a preferred population?
Prosecutors laid terrorism charges Monday against a man accused of driving down and killing four members of a Moslem family in London, Ontario.

The prosecution said Nathaniel Veltman's four counts of first-degree murder constitute an act of terrorism and prosecutors have upgraded those charges under Canada's criminal code. Police allege the incident was a planned and premeditated attack targeting Moslems.

Veltman also faces one count of attempted murder due to terrorism activity.

The upgraded charges were laid as Veltman made a brief court appearance via video Monday morning. He has yet to enter a plea.

Salman Afzaal, 46, his 44-year-old wife Madiha Salman, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna and her 74-year-old grandmother, Talat Afzaal were killed while out for an evening walk on June 6.

The couple's nine-year-old son, Fayez, was maimed but is expected to recover.

Saboor Khan, a friend of the family, said upgrading the charges against Veltman was ``the right thing to do.?

``The family and the community has been terrorized and many of us are afraid to leave our homes,? Khan said.

A funeral for the family drew hundreds of mourners to the Islamic Centre of Southwest Ontario over the weekend.

Veltman's next court date is scheduled for June 21.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/15/2021 00:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Is this right, or is he being railroaded to calm a preferred population?

Lets ask what Derek Chauvin thinks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
DC mayor, not Trump, responsible for 'tear gassing' protestors in Lafayette Square
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
was roundly criticized on June 1, 2020, when he walked through Lafayette Square, the site of major protests, to deliver a speech before St. John's church, which had been set aflame by rioting arsonists.

He was accused of having instructed law enforcement to tear gas protestors to clear the park so that he could engage in a "photo op." It was recently revealed that the park was in the process of being cleared already in order that fencing could be installed. Now it turns out that Trump wasn't even the one responsible, it was Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser, reports Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist.

Official reports prove that it was in fact DC Mayor Muriel Bowser who likely gave the order to disperse the crowd using forceful means such as tear gas. The report from the Office of the Inspector General notes that:

"Finally, we found that the USPP and the Secret Service did not use a shared radio channel to communicate, that the USPP primarily conveyed information orally to assisting law enforcement entities, that an assisting law enforcement entity arrived late and may not have received a full briefing on the rules of engagement, and that several law enforcement officers could not clearly hear the incident commander’s dispersal warnings."

It appears that the location of the speech Trump gave that day also had nothing to do with the decision to clear the streets. Rather, it was to allow entry for a contractor that was hired to install a security fence around the White House.

"For more than a year," Hemingway writes, "Bowser allowed Trump to take the blame for what her police forces had done. In her nationally broadcast speech, Bowser inaccurately called the violent mostly peaceful riots — marked by widespread looting, arson of historic buildings, arson of White House buildings, and assaults on scores of coppers — safe and peaceful. Then she blamed Trump for her own police force’s teargassing of protesters."

"[W]hile we were peacefully protesting," Bowser said on June 1 of last year, "Donald Trump was plotting. He stood in front of one of our most treasured houses of worship and held a Bible for a photo op."

"He sent troops in camouflage into our streets. He sent tear gas into the air and federal helicopters too. I knew if he did this to DC, he would do it to your city or your town, and that’s when I said enough," Bowser continued.

It is also of note that the protests were far from entirely peaceful, according to the Bowser-controlled DC Metropolitan Police Department. Their official version of events is that officers had been injured by people throwing an incendiary projectile at them.

Posted by: Fred || 06/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Everyone knew that. Stupid media.
Posted by: Spoter B || 06/15/2021 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2 

Official reports prove that it was in fact DC Mayor Muriel Bowser who likely gave the order to disperse the crowd using forceful means such as tear gas.

So the LEFT does it and 1 year later the true comes out. But now the LEFT and it Propaganda Media Arm have NEWS-SPEAKED millions into believing it was Trump.

Wish there was a legal way to require the Left and its Media to provide EQUAL time and article location placement for the usual retractions.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/15/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||


Iraq
How Iraq's Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi turned into an Iranian foreign policy instrument
[ARABNEWS] It is seven years since their yellow flag first appeared in the campaign against ISIS, the hard boy group which seized swathes of northern Iraq and eastern Syria in 2014. After ISIS captured large parts of northern Iraq, including djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, in 2014, the fighters of al-Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Forces, won the admiration of many Iraqis for heeding Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s call to arms.

Since then, the umbrella organization of mainly Shiite militias has, however, adopted a more sinister cause. Last month, a convoy of Hashd fighters mounted a show of strength in Baghdad’s Green Zone, the center of Iraq’s political life, and forced the country’s elected leaders to release Qassim Musleh, a Hashd commander close to Iran
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians call for a 'Day of Rage' as far-right Israeli groups prepare to march through Jerusalem today
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • 'March of the Flags' will go ahead in Jerusalem after being postponed on May 10

  • Procession risks igniting tensions with Palestinians who dubbed it 'provocation'

  • It has been rerouted to avoid the Muslim Quarter, home to many Palestinians
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/15/2021 09:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gosh, I thought now that Trump Bibi was gone, everything would be hearts and flowers.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/15/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  How can you tell a Day of Rage from the rest of them?
Posted by: Raj || 06/15/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Could that possibly be yet another one of those Rantburg.... 'differences without a distinction?'
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2021 11:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Testing the new government.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2021 14:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Can we have both groups run into each other? Put it on PPV maybe?
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/15/2021 21:36 Comments || Top||

#6  That'd be better than bumfights!
Posted by: Raj || 06/15/2021 21:52 Comments || Top||


When friends fight: How dare Ilhan Omar compare the United States to Hamas, says Hamas
[HotAir]
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2021 05:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  hope that US Rep. Ilhan Omar and all defenders of Palestinian rights make effort to provide a proper and accurate description of the situation, as this is the starting point

"You're not serious until we see people frothing at the mouth on C-SPAN."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/15/2021 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  My thought is to keep her in Congress as an example of her party.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/15/2021 14:25 Comments || Top||


ICEJ delivers portable bomb shelter to site near Gaza crossing
Truly generous, and chosen thoughtfully to answer local needs.
[IsraelTimes] The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem delivers a portable bomb shelter to the site near the Erez Crossing where an IDF soldier was killed last month during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
ICEJ also hands over 120 fire-fighting suits, hats and boots for local first responders and volunteers and visits the Ashkelon factory where the portable bomb shelters are manufactured.
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‘We’re all together’: Black Flag protest group welcomes gov’t with giant Tel Aviv display
[IsraelTimes] The Black Flag movement, which has led protests against Benjamin Netanyahu over the past year, puts up a giant display at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square welcoming the new "change government."

The group writes "Together" alongside an Israel flag.

"The State of Israel has suffered collective trauma over the past two years," the movement says. "The elections, incitement and threat to democracy left us very fractured. The state is facing immense challenges on the economy and health, welfare and reducing social gaps. These are challenges we can only face if we are together."

"Only together will we be able to reinstate the social cohesion that had characterized Israel. From now on, we are all together."
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#1 
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#2  I spoke to some sources, and some of them supported the change, some of them were rooting for Bibi's return and a permanent hand on the levers. None who supported the change seem to me to be the kind of men Israel needs at the moment. Naive is the term, I believe. It was a consolation to me that the moslem world does not look relieved and some even anticipate a nastier fistfcuk of some sort coming. Yet others are for 'the right of Paleostine to co-exist' Absolute Idiots is the term here.

What I perceive, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that these are people who, not appreciating the sheer gravity of being Israel, have their priorities and perspective all wrong. Some of them believe they are nationalists, but their idea of nation is only somewhere they can prosper or their ideas are accommodated, even at the cost of national security. Some are secularists and bleeding heart liberals egged on by their foreign acquaintances and nursing hollow doctrines of 'democracy' and 'equality'. But the most dangerous are the politicals, the ambitious ones who seek some part of what is most certainly not a pie; those who take Israel to be just another economy to be run like some socialist gravy train patterned on other failing States.

At the heart of all this nonsense lies the problem of good ol' parliamentary deem-oh-crazy, the anti-thesis of Darwin according to me.
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#3  I surely don't know, but just reading the news it seems to me that support for "Palestine" is more intense among the American left than it is among the Arab states.
Posted by: Matt || 06/15/2021 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Another group of people exercising their right to vote themselves out of existence.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/15/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#5  It occurred to me, to wonder if this coalition has funding originating in the massive US stimulus/budget. Perhaps some re-routing through the Pakistani Gender Studies Group.

I'm not the only one who found it odd that after $200million got slated for the Paleos, they started lobbing missiles as soon as the check cleared and the money divvied.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/15/2021 13:08 Comments || Top||


Hamas Killed 160 Palestinian Children to Build Tunnels
h/t Instapundit
[Tablet] - As the death toll of Operation Protective Edge rises, the deaths of children are firmly in the spotlight—and rightly so. It pains all reasonable people to hear of children dying as the consequence of war. Hamas and its supporters display gruesome pictures of dead and wounded children in order to gain sympathy for their portrait of Israel as the villain intent on killing Palestinians. In response, Israel cites the need to stop Hamas from firing thousands of rockets at its own children, who are being forced to live in bomb shelters, as well as the need to eliminate the tunnels that Hamas dug into Israel in order to carry out terror attacks against Israelis. One tunnel opening was found underneath an Israeli kindergarten.

But who built those tunnels? The answer is Hamas, of course—using some of the same children who are now trapped under fire in Gaza.

The Institute for Palestine Studies published a detailed report on Gaza’s Tunnel Phenomenon in the summer of 2012. It reported that tunnel construction in Gaza has resulted in a large number of child deaths.

    "At least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials"

The author, Nicolas Pelham, explains that Hamas uses child laborers to build their terror tunnels because, "much as in Victorian coal mines, they are prized for their nimble bodies".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2021 01:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  that 160 total was about 10 years ago
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/15/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||


Al-Qassam Brigades started their registration process today for military summer camp for school-age boys
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Against backdrop of Jerusalem Day flag march tomorrow, Hamas and other militant factions renewed threats of escalation, ballon unit queues up, IDF preps response
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Hamas ‘balloon launching’ unit announces return to activity tomorrow
[IsraelTimes] The Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group’s incendiary balloon unit announces that it will return to activity on Tuesday, against the backdrop of the controversial Jerusalem flag march slated for that day.

Israel has warned that it will respond to breaches of its illusory sovereignty, be it rocket fire or the launching of incendiary devices that have torched hundreds of acres of land near the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
border.

IDF readies for possibility of renewed Gaza violence ahead of tomorrow’s flag march
They only got partway down their target list before the ceasefire was called, and warned that if Hamas, et al start up again, they’d go after the next on the list.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF has briefed news hounds that it is preparing for the possibility of renewed fighting in Gazoo, against the backdrop of warnings made by Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", against the holding of the controversial Jerusalem flag march scheduled for tomorrow.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz has approved a series of targets for the IDF to attack in the Strip and additional Iron Dome batteries have been deployed at various sites. However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
the military sources briefing news hounds emphasize that the possibility of violence is not particularly likely.
Posted by: Fred || 06/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran's Navy Receives Two New Warships
[AnNahar] Iran's navy took delivery on Monday of two new warships in a ceremony broadcast by state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, several days after announcing it dispatched a squadron into the Atlantic Ocean.

"The defence ministry has achieved a major task today in supplying two ships to the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
-- the destroyer Dena and a minesweeper," Iran's President Hassan Rouhani
...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man...
said in a speech.

The delivery of the two ships came after Iran announced on Thursday that it had "for the first time" sent a small squadron of ships into the Atlantic Ocean with the goal of "reinforcing its maritime capabilities".

According to a statement by the army chief of staff, the Dena "is an entirely Iranian destroyer" equipped with a "helicopter landing zone" and a "range of defense and attack systems".

It has the capacity to "cover long distances" and is equipped to "destroy all aerial threats", along with underwater threats.

The minesweeper, named "Shahin", is over 33 metres in length and is capable of "detecting and neutralizing diverse types of naval mines", the statement said.

The Iranian navy on June 2 lost one of its biggest ships, the Kharg, which sank in the Gulf of Oman, after it was struck by a fire that raged for hours.

The crew was evacuated and the cause remains either unknown or unpublicized.

Iranian naval forces described the Kharg as a "support (and) training vessel", but military specialists GlobalSecurity.org categorized it as a helicopter carrier and fuel replenishment vessel.

Posted by: trailing wife || 06/15/2021 00:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  And the two ships en route to Venezuela? That "appropriate actions" spoken of by SecDef happen yet? Thought not...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/15/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||

#2  The Shakedown cruises should be...kinetic
Posted by: Frank G || 06/15/2021 13:29 Comments || Top||


Lebanese woman assaulted by bodyguards of lawmaker GebranBassil after she publicly shamed him in restaurant
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Iran says it has reached a broad agreement with the UnitedStates over the lifting of sanctions on its industrial sectors, including energy
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  another deal that was brokered under Obama and can now take effect
Posted by: Chris || 06/15/2021 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  ValJar
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/15/2021 21:05 Comments || Top||


Professors at Damascus University blackmail, harass students for good grades
[NPASYRIA] After her repeated failure in an economic subject in a faculty in the University of Damascus, Ala Wahba (a pseudonym), a third-year university student, decided to ask the professor for help and meet him in his office.

"I was surprised for his rude frankness when he asked me for a physical relationship in exchange for passing the subject," Wahba told North Press.

His request had a psychological effect on Wahba, and despite her multiple appeals for a passing grade, still failed the subject.

Many professors at the University of Damascus resort to "harassment, bribes, and sometimes mediation" to pass students.

On June 8, Damascus University revoked the doctoral degree of a professor in the Agricultural Engineering Faculty, which she had been granted six years ago, after it was discovered that she had stolen her research thesis.

"The reality of granting doctorate certificates in Syrian universities today is faced by many negative aspects, chief among them that the new professors do not have a second language; neither English nor French," a professor of Tishreen University, who preferred to be unidentified, said.
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Barring supporters from Kurdistan obstructs Kurdish unity: AANES representative in Erbil
[NPASYRIA] Barring supporters of the Kurdish cause stands in the way of Kurdish unity, the representative of the Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (AANES) said on Monday.

On Saturday, the "International Delegation for Peace and Freedom in Kurdistan," consisting of individuals from various countries was prevented from entering the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG). Nurshan Hussein, representative of the AANES in the KRG, told North Press that the delegation came "bearing the motto of wanting peace and freedom for Kurdistan and all Kurds," and accused the local leading Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of barring their entry.

A member of the delegation, a civil activist from Finland who wished to remain anonymous, told North Press about the "unnerving experience" of being turned around at Erbil Airport.

The activist described his intent, and the intent of around 150 other journalists, activists, doctors, NGO workers, and politicians, to engage in a fact-finding mission and raise awareness of Ottoman Turkish military presence and actions in the KRG. The group intended to meet with local government, civil organizations, and political parties to discuss the matter.

The civil activist told North Press that several members were stopped in Germany, others were stopped in Doha, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, and he, along with around 25 others, was taken aside at passport control in Erbil Airport.

After a 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...
test, the activist and other delegation members were questioned as to the purpose of their visit, with local security forces giving non-answers when told about the delegation. He added that they were at first accused of "supporting a terror group" before being told that they were in danger and their countries were concerned about them, and that they would be returning home.

After nine hours in the airport, the activist was put on a plane to Doha, at which point the passports of him and fellow delegation members were taken and not returned to them until they arrived in Stockholm.

At least 27 people were prevented from leaving Dusseldorf Airport in Germany for Erbil, including two members of German Parliament, Cansu Ozdemir and Hakan Tas. Sources close to members of the delegation also told North Press 60-70 delegation members in total were either stopped while in transit or deported upon arrival to Erbil.

"The achievements that we have made as Kurds, and the support that is raised for us by the international community, intellectuals, and members of parliament, influential individuals in world society, lawyers, and human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
organizations, all friends of Kurds, is an opportunity we must take advantage of," Hussein stated.

"We want all political parties in [KRG] and all of Kurdistan’s parties to use this opportunity and not allow their stance to aid the enemy."

On the 10th of June, representative of the Autonomous Administration in Erbil Jihad Hassan and two members of the Democratic Union Party’s (PYD, the leading party in North and East Syria) relations office, Mustafa Khalil and Mustafa Aziz, were arrested while attempting to receive guests from Erbil Airport. They have not been heard from since, and have not been allowed to speak to any AANES or PYD representatives, according to Hussein.

The Kurdistan Regional Government has witnessed tension recently, as Ottoman Turkish forces continue to expand their military presence in the region’s north and bombard Kurdish-majority regions with Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s. Tensions were further heightened by an incident in KRG’s Metina region in which five Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed; the Peshmerga blamed the attack on the PKK, who denies killing the fighters.
Posted by: Fred || 06/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq



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