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Afghanistan
Taliban Leader Tightens Grip Before Intra-Afghan Talks: Report
[ToloNews] The Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada’s decision to appoint Mullah Yaqoob, elder son of Mullah Mohammad Blinky Omar
...a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality. Died of an unspecified ailment in a Pak hospital...
, as head of the military commission, is aimed at further strengthening his hold on all affairs ahead of the key negotiations between the Taliban and Afghan politicians, the Pak newspaper Daily Times reported on Wednesday, citing a senior Taliban member.

The Taliban’s senior member also said that the group’s powerful "Rehbari Shura" or leadership council, is also discussing a suggestion to form a new team for the intra-Afghan talks, which, according to reports, will be convened in Doha.

A senior member of the Taliban also said that there was a proposal to form a new negotiation team comprised of members of the ’Rehbari Shura’ (leadership council) that will be under the direct supervision of Akhundzada," he said.

"The Taliban leader is eager to take complete control before the intra-Afghan talks," said Tahir Khan, a Pak journalist.

"He said there is another proposal to induct new people into the negotiation team. The idea behind the proposal is that the team should be out of the influence of anyone," said the Daily Times in the report.

"No final decision has yet been taken and the proposal is expected to be discussed in a meeting in the coming days," said the Taliban leader, who did not want to be identified.

"I think the appointment of Mullah Yaqoub as head of the military affairs was discussed before," said Sayed Akbar Agha, a former Taliban commander.

The Daily Times’ report also states that the Taliban chief removed four members from the negotiation team including Amir Khan Mutaqi, Maulvi Jan Muhammad Madani, Zia ur Rahman Madani and Sheikh Sayed Rasool and five members of the 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...
office: Dr Saleh, Munir Sadaat, Jehangirwal, Abid abd Qazi Saida Jan.

The Taliban leader said the leadership council in a meeting during Ramazan favored the start of the intra-Afghan dialogue if the US keeps on taking steps for the implementation of the agreement that includes completion of the process of the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners.

Akhunzada’s decision to appoint Yaqoob last month surprised the shura members, who were not informed before the decision.

The Taliban chief usually consults the members of the leadership council, the high level decision-making body, on all decisions, the source said.

"Yaqoob later visited the shura members to formally inform them about his appointment and to seek their cooperation," said the Taliban leader, who was privy to the development.

"Another meeting of the shura will decide the agenda for the intra-Afghan dialogue that is expected to be held soon," Daily Times quoted the senior Taliban member as saying.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 02:03 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


74 Officers Graduate from Special Operations Training
[ToloNews] 74 officers on Wednesday graduated after successfully completing military training at the Special Operations Corps in Kabul. The ceremony was also attended by top commanders of the corps.

At the ceremony, Lieutenant General Mohammad Farid Ahmadi, the commander of Special Operations Corps of the Afghan National Army, said that the Special Operations Corps is a powerful and professional military unit in the country and is unique in the region.

He said that many regional countries want their forces to be trained in this corps.

The Afghan commander said that he sends a last message to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
to join peace or they will face the resolve of the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) and be eliminated.

Members of the Special Operations Corps of the Afghan National Army are trained heavily in various military areas-- including tactics for nighttime military operations, in the most remote regions.

General Ghulam Hazrat, deputy commander of Special Operations Corps, said that the armed Lions of Islam "aren’t human" as they kill children inside the hospital and people inside the mosques.

"If they were Moslems, they would never kill the Ulema inside the mosques, they would never target the children inside the hospitals, so we cant call them committed to Islam, it would be wrong to call them Moslems," said Ghulam Hazrat, a commander of Special Operations Corps.

"the special operations division is equivalent to the standards of our friend countries such as NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
countries and the United States’ special operations divisions," said Khalid Noori, a commander of the Special Operations Corps.

"We trained very hard to be prepared for the operations," said Hawa, a female officer of the Special Operations Corps.

"We appeared in exams, we were 300 people and only 30 of us were selected for the process," said Hassan Alizada, an officer of Special Operations Corps.

"Today I feel very proud to be among the champions to defend our soil and to eliminate the enemies," said Zikrullah, an officer of the Special Operations Corps.

The Afghan Special Operation Forces are capable of simultaneously conducting 30 anti-terror operations within 24 hours in various regions of the country.

The special operation forces are respected for producing the most elite and professional officers in the ranks of the Afghan national army and are assigned the most difficult missions in the war.

There are about 10,000 soldiers serving in the ranks of Special Operations Corps. These forces have carried out over 10,000 operations over the past one decade in the most remote regions of the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 02:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the special operations division is equivalent to the standards of our friend countries

QED, they have the same name.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will arrive in Cairo today
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  After visiting Israel. The anti-Ottoman alliance takes shape?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2020 1:28 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
The George Floyd Riots: The Leftist/Islamic Partnership in Action
[FrontPage] The Unholy Alliance is emboldened and on the march.

The nationwide riots over the murder of George Floyd have offered new insight into the unholy alliance between Leftists and Islamic supremacists. Zahra Billoo, Executive Director of the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
Bay Area office of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
(CAIR-SFBA), recently tweeted: "Non-Black POC, first and second generation immigrant Moslems friends in particular, what are you doing today to support #BlackLivesMatter?" Imraan Siddiqi of CAIR-Arizona tweeted out a video of a hijab-wearing Moslem woman kicking a tear gas canister toward police with the approving comment, "Drop-kick that tear-gas canister, sister."

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion...
in Los Angeles, rioters were so grieved and angered by Floyd’s death that they spray-painted "Free Paleostine" on the wall of a synagogue. And in New York City, a Moslem housing attorney is in legal trouble for tossing a Molotov cocktail at a NYPD cruiser during the recent riots in New York City. She is also a committed activist for the Paleostinian jihad, having published agitprop spreading false claims of Paleostinian victimhood.

Despite the hot water Urooj Rahman is in now, however, she has a bright future as an ideological leader of both the Left and the Islamic jihad. In an interview before her attack, she enunciated the common goal of both movements: "This s—t won’t ever stop unless we f—kin’ take it all down."

In both the interview and during her attack, Rahman kept a Paleostinian keffiyeh close to her face. Her sartorial choice was not incidental. With her attempted torching of the police cruiser (her Molotov cocktail didn’t light), she brought Paleostinian jihad tactics to the riots in the U.S. She also revealed the congruence between the ideology of the Left in America today and that of jihadists, not just the Paleostinians, but all over the world.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
the Left’s anti-Americanism, and determination to "f—kin’ take it all down," has been on abundant display in the recent riots, and continues, to the apparent delight of Moslems such as Urooj Rahman, Zahra Billoo, and Imraan Siddiqi. When she was arrested, Rahman was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan "THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES REGARDLESS." The Arabic word for "struggle" is, of course, jihad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  near as I can tell the vast majority of the damage from the rioting and looting is done by opportunist people just wanting free stuff

the initial brick into the window and firebombing is done by antifada (mostly) or BLM activists/believers (occasionally).

the Islamist have been relatively quiet

also, as near as I can tell small businesses owned by moslems have been victimized when they are in the path of destruction just like those that are white or hispanic or asian owned
Posted by: lord garth || 06/18/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||


Defund the Police? Philadelphia Muslim Leader Calls for Bloodshed
[PJMedia] There is considerable evidence of Leftist/Islamic collaboration in the recent riots, and one Islamic scholar has called openly for more bloodshed. This should be, but probably won’t be, a matter of concern for intelligence and law enforcement officials, because this imam is not in Tehran or Lahore or Kabul: he is in Philadelphia.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports that on June 2, an Islamic scholar in the City of Brotherly Love, Nafis Abu Zayd Sparrow, uploaded a video to the Maktabah Ibn Taymiyyah YouTube channel in which he dismisses peaceful protests on Islamic grounds: "Even scholars of the past, they mention clearly that there is nothing found — no basis whatsoever — in the Koran or the Sunnah for demonstrations or protests."

Sparrow mocked the Twitter wars and meme-making that characterize our current silly civil war: "When Allah told [Moses] to go back to deal with this tyrannical ruler, to deal with this tyrannical system — did He tell him to spit in their faces? Did He tell him to stand outside and do public demonstrations? Did He tell him to behave a certain way — to clown the president, make up all types of memes, say this about the president because it is the way you feel? Did He say to do all of that, and talk bad about Pharaoh?...So all of this tweeting, speaking, celebrities — don’t follow them. ’F Trump,’ that sounds good... Don’t follow them."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  “ aying that if you want to separate from the racism, from those people that are embedded with racism — then you have to remove yourself from the system itself and you have to create your system within the system."

You already have a system, get on the plane.
Posted by: Klem Kadiddlehopper || 06/18/2020 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2 
So... ISIS joins the BLM. For... George Floyd ?

Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/18/2020 1:59 Comments || Top||

#3  I don’t know, Dron. I can’t find anything about the background of Nafis Abu Zayd Sparrow, so I don’t know who he connects to.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 2:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Look for Saalih bin Fawzan al Fawzan, his controller in America. Also known as Shaykh ul Islam. A number of underground islamic publications urging for struggle toward the muslim eschaton in kafir lands can be traced to him.

Nafis Abu Zayd travels all over the US, and writes and promotes literature, lectures and groups working for the Ghalba-e-islam (Supremacy). His area is only the US. Also has a chapter of dedicated workers somewhere in a mosque in New Jersey, posing as humanist, peaceful types. Another in New York, but another faction wrested control of local muslims in NY from them. Their job is to project the smiley face of islam to the world, and keep the faithful, and not so faithful bound in religion and hubris. Their enemy is mainly modernity and western education.

'Sparrow' Abu Zayd is seen as a youth icon and trailblazer among the gown wearing, testicle scratching crowd, piously reminding the current generation of the forty hadiths, the messages of 'good works' by Mochmed, etc. He stresses on the prophecies about progressivism hampering the return of a mad god to earth, and how muslims must not give in to modernism. I know all this because his books and videos are banned here; they were becoming popular among some south Indian idiots just before they joined the ISIS.

But all you need to know is, he is the founder and manager of the Ibn Taymiyyah Learning Center on Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/18/2020 3:49 Comments || Top||

#5  This, Dron?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 4:06 Comments || Top||

#6  And/or this Wkipedia article?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 4:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Yupp, that's Fawzaan.

There's a conflict brewing among the ISI supported Asian islamists and them, for control of the jihad in the US. I think because of the high ratio of Indians and possibly Pakis running about among the insurrectionists, who emerges with control may be important to them both.

We must fuel this conflict to make it murderous to themselves, using every means at our disposal. Fake news, stings, deep fakes of their leaders talking crap about their own frontline grunts, drive bys and bombs, rivalries. If only the intelligence people weren't so stuck up and set in their ways.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/18/2020 4:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Intelligence people aren't setup to defend us little people just defund us.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/18/2020 7:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Yupp, that's Fawzaan.

But he is a high Saudi government official! It’s a really, really good thing American frackers and new finds in unexpected places around the world have flooded the world with oil, permanently driving prices down, and thus the funds the Saudis and Iranians have to pay for their little jihad hobby.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 8:23 Comments || Top||

#10  I don't think he's gonna like whose blood ends up shed...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/18/2020 23:18 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey FM Cavusoglu is now in Libya. He was expected to meet Italy's FM Di Maio this morning in Ankara
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
China calls on #India to stop 'provocative activities' along disputed border
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  China stop first.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 06/18/2020 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  To a predator self-defense is a provocation?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2020 1:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Of course. Remember "Polish aggression" and "Finnish aggression" in 1939?
Posted by: Tom || 06/18/2020 13:53 Comments || Top||


Corps Commander's meeting held at Pak GHQ, a day after high level meeting at ISI HQ
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Pakistan will not recognise Israel, wants Al-Quds Al-Sharif to be its capital: FM
Yeah, yeah. And you still are at war with Israel, too, not that anyone has noticed for over half a century. This is just bluster to hide the secret messages the ISI has from time to time passed to Mossad since Zia-ul-Haq was president.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
on Tuesday reaffirmed Pakistain’s stance on Israel and clarified that the county will never recognize Israel and rejected the statement attributed to him and the PM about the recognition of Israel."I want to make it clear that the rumours of recognizing Israel are baseless and not true," the federal minister said in his policy statement in the National Assembly, adding that Pakistain was and to date a supporter of the two-state ideology.

Reiterating that Pakistain, by no means, will recognize Israel under the influence of any Arab country, the foreign minister asserted that the incumbent government’s position on Paleostine was the same as that of the former governments of Pakistain Moslem League- Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistain People’s Party (PPP).

"We want a two-state solution to the Paleostinian issue and demand that al-Quds al-Sharif should be the capital of Paleostine," FM Qureshi added.



Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
Brother of George Floyd asks U.N. to take action on violence against black people
[UPI] Philonise Floyd urged the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
to launch an international probe into the killings of black people in the United States following the police-involved killing of his brother George Floyd.During the U.N Human Right's Council's urgent debate on racism, Floyd delivered an impassioned plea on Wednesday for the international body to take action in response to police brutality in the United States as exhibited in the killing of his brother by Minneapolis police and violence against protesters who have demonstrated throughout the world in response to his death.

"You watched my brother die. That could have been me," Floyd said in a recording played during the debate. "I am my brother's keeper. You in the United Nations are your brothers' and sisters' keepers in America and you have the power to help us get justice for my brother George Floyd. I am asking you to help him. I am asking you to help me. I am asking you to help us. Black people in America."

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed opened the debate by saying that George Floyd's death was the "most recent trigger" for the global protests but said that the violence "spans history and borders alike" throughout the world.



Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 
"I am asking you with tears in my eyes to help dissolve the USA. SOb...sniff. Can't nobody do nuffin'? "

If he's his brothers' keeper, he should go to his brothers and tell them to change their attitudes against law and order, their racial hatred of white people and christians. Go into the street gangs and crack pushers and pimps and tell them to reform. Go to his sisters and dissuade them from becoming birthing machines for meal tickets and footsoldiers for the thousands of small drug gangs and enforcers that thrive across America. Go to the hollywood types and rappers and idols of black youth and tell them not to push their 'gangsta' themes.

There are men and women actually doing this, trying to change the attitudes of people toward the blacks by reforming the blacks themselves. People reminding them of Christ and general human decency. This is the only way you can end racism or prejudice in a society.

No prejudice of any rational society is unfounded. If you trace it back, every prejudice is the rotting body of a circumspection evolved after centuries of experience.

Aah, but who'll explain that to people being promised the moon by globalists, only if they'll howl at it hard enough.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/18/2020 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Two isolated indigenous peoples live in Ecuador's Amazon region. They are both eastern Huaorani peoples living in Yasuni National Park, called the Tagaeri and the Taromenane.

Bringing these people here and encouraging them to shop via Amazon, or join a foursome at the club....probably a bridge too far. Dropping me into their Amazonian village for a year or two, equally as futile.

Perhaps, just perhaps... it was never intended.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2020 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Can he also ask black people to stop committing excess violent crime?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/18/2020 3:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps a quick look at the murder stats out of Chicago & Baltimore would give the UN pause, not to mention some statistics re: black-on-white crime. Of course, to take the UN seriously in the first place....I mean, it's not like taking a vial of chemical weapons to the Security Council or anything.
Posted by: Clem || 06/18/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#5  His brother is making a lot $$$$$$ off his Georges name.

Who is funneling the $$$$$ to him?
Who are his backers and handlers?
Why isn't some deeper research done into these questions?
Posted by: NN2N || 06/18/2020 5:57 Comments || Top||

#6  So, he's trying to say blacks in the US are actually citizens of the African nations he's urging to intervene? How does that work?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/18/2020 9:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Send the blue tops. They won't last long, especially in Chicago.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/18/2020 9:24 Comments || Top||

#8  U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed

oh joy.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/18/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||

#9  I am my brother's keeper.

No, you were, and you sucked at it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/18/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Have them look at the raw crime statistics. Might consider deploying 'African Peacekeepers' in those neighborhoods. Raping, pillaging and looting on an organized scale might impress the local natives.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#11  Brother of George Floyd asks U.N. to take action on violence against black people

Floyd's family may love George despite his warts, but he is not the saint depicted in the MSM and by various left-wing groups. I doubt the UN is the body to go to for resolution of much of anything. You'll find a corrupt body that suffers from many anti-beliefs (fill in the blank; anti-U.S. for example) of their own.

IMO, what was done by Officer Derek Chauvin was wrong. Chauvin has been criticized demonized by just about everyone. He has seen involved in many violent incidents where he and other officers could have easily lost their lives. Little has been said about the possibility that he may have been suffering from PTSD. A friend of mine was a SWAT team member where high-risk encounters and entries were fairly routine. He suffered from PTSD after years of dealing with violent criminals.
Another example of an officer who many people will remember who suffered from PTSD was Ken Osmond who was a LAPD officer. Before that he played Eddie Haskell on Leave it to Beaver.”

Wiki entry: On September 20, 1980, Osmond was struck by five bullets while in a foot chase with a suspected car thief. He was protected from four of the bullets by his bullet-resistant vest, with the fifth bullet ricocheting off his belt buckle. The shooting was later dramatized in a November 1992 episode of the CBS series Top Cops. Osmond applied for a disability pension in 1984, but after an evidentiary hearing in 1986, the Los Angeles Board of Pension Commissioners denied his request by a 4–2 vote. Osmond appealed the determination to the Superior Court and in 1988 a judge overturned the Board's denial and awarded Osmond a lifetime pension and he retired from the force.

If one reads his recent obit, it reads like he suffered from PTSD as the result of his shooting encounters. Officer Derek Chauvin had many similar encounters over the years. Perhaps Minneapolis should have retired him out earlier after such encounters or given him a desk job or some other job out of the line of action.

So many times, politicians bend to mob rule and officers who are involved in such shootings that involves African-Americans tend to convict the officer in the hysteria of the moment before the shooting is investigated.

It is no wonder that many officers are leaving police work. Despite what has been said about getting rid of or defunding police departments," police officers are essential to maintaining a civilized society. The "no go" area of Chaz or Chop is a good example of an area without police. Similar areas can be found in some European cities.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/18/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#12  I'd be interested in a piece about blacks taking action against UN corruption.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||

#13  Regardless of why Chauvin was a bad cop, he shouldn't have been on the street. They also serve who push papers...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/18/2020 23:16 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Who are the Syrian Individuals and Entities Hit by New U.S. Sanctions?
[AnNahar] The Trump administration on Wednesday ramped up pressure on Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
and his inner circle with a raft of new economic and travel sanctions for human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
abuses and blocking a settlement of the country's bloody nine-year conflict.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 03:14 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Fresh US sanctions take effect in Syria
[Rudaw] The United States imposed long-anticipated new sanctions on members and entities of the Assad regime Wednesday for their crimes against the Syrian people.

"As of today, the sanctions provisions of the Caesar Act are fully in effect. Anyone doing business with the Assad regime, no matter where in the world they are, is potentially exposed to travel restrictions and financial sanctions," said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement on Wednesday.

"Today, the Treasury Department and State Department are releasing 39 designations under the Caesar Act and Executive Order 13894 as the beginning of what will be a sustained campaign of economic and political pressure to deny the Assad regime revenue and support it uses to wage war and commit mass atrocities against the Syrian people," added Pompeo.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2020 02:44 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


#2  France sentences Syrian leader's uncle for money laundering
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2020 11:22 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Two schools honoring Washington and Jefferson to be renamed in 'support of Black Lives Matter'
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Two public schools in Berkeley, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, will remove their names commemorating Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson amid renewed and widespread calls from the Black Lives Matter movement for racial equality.

The Berkeley Unified School District approved a "Resolution in Support of Black Lives Matter" last week, following weeks of nationwide protests and riots denouncing systemic racism and police brutality sparked by the death of a black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day. Both schools are named after presidents who owned slaves.

"Noting that Black Lives Matter protests have swept the nation as demonstrators demand justice in response to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and far too many other Black Americans to list, the Resolution In Support of Black Lives Matter includes the following action steps: Initiate a School Renaming Process for Jefferson and Washington Elementary Schools in accordance with the District’s policies," the school board said in a statement.

The school district also announced it would launch a "Black Joy Campaign," which will be a year-round initiative to train teachers on racial equality and collect data from the schools, the SF Gate reported.

"This is the first, but not the last, of our work around ensuring that we move from the thought of equity to excellence," school board member Ka’Dijah Brown said.

Community members previously tried to remove Jefferson’s name from the elementary school in 2005 but did not get enough votes for the change. The BLM movement is cited as the spark that initiated the successful changes.

Last week's vote comes as statues and memorials of controversial leaders have been toppled and defaced in recent weeks. Additionally, people in high-profile industries have faced resignations and firings over comments or actions regarding race.

Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Given the likely quality of graduates ("California" & "public school"), this is probably for the best.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2020 1:30 Comments || Top||

#2  In Georgia the 'flight' begins long before the WOKE name changes. The HS football team and the real estate multi-listings are key indicators. Following local crime stats is also a useful confirmation.

It is, what it is.



Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2020 1:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Surprise ...We have an election coming up.

The Liberals, Socialists and Democrats were losing minority voters in droves. So they whipped out the Political Election Year Playbook and tried so far:

* a coup,
* a perjured based and failed impeachment,
* an mega over-hyped virus packed with false data,
* Mail in voting to stuff the vote,
* Major funded protests over local incidents,
* Bought and funded in Anti-FA and BLM for Riots,
* Allowed them to loot, set fires and assault over 10,000 US Citizens,
* Kill or murder over 30 people,.
* Physically assault over 500 police officers,
* Murder 5+ Police,
* Followed Police home to assault them and their families and or commit arson.
* Likely damage or theft over $500M in private property.
* Publish Police officers home addresses and personal date to allow more Felonies.

My fear now is they will seek out and commit greater MEDIA incidents, like school shootings or following thru on threats to take rioting and looting suburbia.

BTW:
Because Police dept. are issuing only basic basic ammo amounts. Many here in Georgia have been sharing extra 9mm, 40cal, 12Ga. "training" ammo with our community officers.
Posted by: NN2N || 06/18/2020 6:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Just name them all after Barky and Mooch. Let their names be tied to every bad thing that happens in the public school system in this country.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/18/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||

#5  "Black Joy Campaign,"

Strength Through Joy!
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/18/2020 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Ka’Dijah Brown

I'm sorry, are we supposed to say this with a straight face?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/18/2020 10:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Rename one for Margaret Higgins Sanger. Watch the intersectionality fight begin!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Jefferson and Washington Elementary Schools

Teach the little kids how to hate, early.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2020 11:29 Comments || Top||


Vermont High School Principal Suspended After Criticizing Black Lives Matter
[BREITBART] According to a report by the College Fix, a high school principal in the state of Vermont was placed on administrative leave this week in response to comments she made about the Black Lives Matter movement.

In her remarks, Riley stated that she refuses to support political violence. She went on to claim that she still supports her local law enforcement officers.

I firmly believe that Black Lives Matter, but I DO NOT agree with the coercive measures taken to get to this point across; some of which are falsified in an attempt to prove a point. While I want to get behind BLM, I do not think people should be made to feel they have to choose black race over human race. While I understand the urgency to feel compelled to advocate for black lives, what about our fellow law enforcement? What about all others who advocate for and demand equity for all? Just because I don’t walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I am a racist.

The Mount Ascutney School District Board immediately released a statement in which it condemned Riley’s remarks.

In the statement, the board argued that Riley’s statements were tainted by "ignorance, prejudice, and lack of judgment" and that they were "utterly contrary to the values" of the "school board and district."

District Superintendent David Baker argued that Riley’s comments were "outright racist."

"I felt like a post like that, with those kinds of racial overtones and what I define as pretty much outright racist in my values system, she would have never posted that," Baker said.

Although Riley was only suspended from her position this week, Elizabeth Burrows, the chair of the local school board, announced that it is unlikely that Riley will return to her position.

"We do not intend to hire her back [...] we wanted to make sure we acted as quickly as we possibly could," Burrows said.
Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Comrade Stalin would be proud.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2020 1:32 Comments || Top||

#2  So would Mugabe's ZANU.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/18/2020 1:44 Comments || Top||

#3  "Just because I don’t walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I am a racist."
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/18/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  "Just because I don’t walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I am a racist."

District Superintendent David Baker argued that Riley’s comments were "outright racist."


The school board just proved her point. You *MUST* wear a BLM sign around your neck or your a racist...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/18/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||

#5  At this point everyone should just get a bot that posts PC stuff to a fake social media account in their name and be done with it. Experience has shown that even friends and family will turn on you for some past impolitic remark if the opportunity arises, so even private conversations are a fraught proposition. And if you never said anything that upsets the SJW mindset, someone will put words in your mouth anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/18/2020 9:07 Comments || Top||


GM to go silent for 8 minutes, 46 seconds on Juneteenth in support of Black community
[FREEP] General Motors said it will recognize Friday — the day known as "Juneteenth," which celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. — with 8 minutes, 46 seconds of silence to support the Black community.

The time frame represents the length of time a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on the neck of a Black man named George Floyd on May 25 before Floyd died. The videotaped incident has prompted weeks of protests against police brutality across the country and around the world.

The news comes a day after GM's self-driving subsidiary, Cruise, said it recognizes Juneteenth as a holiday. A GM front man told the Free Press on Monday that GM also had plans to mark the day.

The moment of silence recognition was outlined to GM employees Tuesday afternoon in an internal memo from GM President Mark Reuss.

"I really believe eight-plus minutes of solid reflection will benefit everyone," Reuss wrote. "I’m sure many of you have felt the same glut of emotions I have while watching recent events unfold ... disbelief, anger, shame, grief, and ultimately heartbreak. This is not who we are as humankind, nor as a country."


Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  They haven't made a decent car since the '50s. They can go silent permanently for all I care.
Posted by: Don Vito Slereger1423 || 06/18/2020 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  This isn't news to me. Once ( and once) did I buy a new Pontiac and the AC-Delco radio would randomly go silent for extended periods. Owner of the dealership finally replaced it after GM HQ tried multiple times to fix.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/18/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  How about that GM strive to make better cars as a way to protest?

All those buying into this silliness, such as GM President Mark Reuss should hold their breath for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/18/2020 12:39 Comments || Top||



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