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-Short Attention Span Theater-
David Hogg: Today’s Mass Shootings Stem from America’s ‘Indigenous Mass Shootings’ and ‘White Supremacy’
[BREITBART] Friday on MSNBC’s All In, dipshit March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg discussed what he believed was the origin of mass shootings in the United States.

Hogg said, "I think it comes down to reckoning with our history and our history of white supremacy in the United States. The fact that we live in a post-genocidal society oftentimes that was orchestrated by the United States government in that if we want to talk about mass shootings, we need to recognize the massive number of indigenous mass shootings that was conducted by the United States government.
....I think back to the battle of Wounded-Knee and the several hundred Native Americans, predominately men, woman, and children...
I think back to the battle of Wounded-Knee
"I was there, you know."
and the several hundred Native Americans,
Back in them days they wuz Injuns...
predominately men, woman, and children
... but cows, too, and doggies, and cats, and field mice, and a half dozen buffalo, and some moneys, and a whale...
that were slaughtered by the United States government back in the nineteenth century.
One word: Comanche.
Another word: Apache.
Another word: Algonquin.
Another word: Lakota.
Two more words: General Custer.
Another two: Simon Girty.
Whatever happened to Virginia Dare, the first white baby born in the Jamestown colony? Hint: Powhattan. Maybe Croatan. Whichever, she's dead now.
And that French guy, who decided to go live among the Noble Savages, and ended up getting scalped so he went back to La Belle France. Lucky for him, people still wore wigs back in those days, but still...
Perhaps young Master Hogg should read up on the actual history of the Plymouth and Jamestown Colonies, instead of watching the Walt Disney version of things. Pocahontas was eleven years old when she rescued John Smith. I'd be surprised if she actually sang to the animals.

And how that is never discussed as a mass shooting.
It was a stoopid and brutal military operation.
And that was wrong because those people were not armed, and we were stealing their land."
Actually they were being disarmed, some were still armed, and the fight started accidentally. It was a battle, even though vastly unequal. Sand Creek was a more deliberate massacre. Mostly women and children and the elderly, for which Col. Chivington, the commander, was at least reprimanded (I don't recall if he was dismissed or not. Probably not, since the Civil War was on.) But the govt shooting up even partially armed people defending their land sounds like a really good argument in favor of the Second Amendment.

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Look At Me!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/08/2019 6:04 Comments || Top||

#2  What an impertinent, senseless motherfucker. Battle is a mass shooting ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/08/2019 14:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Aren't this little shit's 15 minutes up?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/08/2019 16:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Pathological Oikophobia ... or just a rabble-rouser wanting grow up and become a "success" like Al Sharpton?
Posted by: magpie || 09/08/2019 17:00 Comments || Top||

#5  27 of 28 mass shooters had no farther figure in their lives.
Posted by: Bill Borgia6417 || 09/08/2019 21:14 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Why You Can’t Say ‘Eat Me!’ to a Leftist Anymore
[AMGREATNESS] There’s nothing funny about the Left’s regressive agenda of atheism, socialism, earth worship and now, evidently, cannibalism.

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  New motto: We eat the people!
Posted by: 3dc || 09/08/2019 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Only after they shrink their heads, tho....
Posted by: Winky Ebbavitle4576 || 09/08/2019 5:12 Comments || Top||

#3  ...NEA, a Left Affiliate, has been working on that for decades.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/08/2019 6:01 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Omorong Black8889 || 09/08/2019 9:26 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Seattle Might Ban New Homes and Buildings From Using Natural Gas
[TOWNHALL] The Seattle Times reports that Seattle's city council is considering legislation which would ban all new homes and buildings within city limits from using natural gas, and mandating that these edifices must use electric heating and cooking.

Councilmember Mike O’Brien will likely introduce the legislation next week. If passed, it is expected that the regulations will go in effect next summer.

"We know that some people rely on natural gas at home and on the natural-gas industry for jobs, so we want to be thoughtful about how we transition," O'Brien said. "But in the meantime, let’s not continue to make the problem worse."

Peggi Lewis Fu, executive director of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association’s Washington state chapter, slammed the potential proposal.

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Morons.

Carbon emissions are not the problem. YOU ARE.
Posted by: newc || 09/08/2019 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  The actual target is people. They want to ban people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/08/2019 3:48 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Not all the people, just wrong kind of people.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/08/2019 5:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Major oil tankers have converted to natural gas. Ditto Morons.
Posted by: Dale || 09/08/2019 8:21 Comments || Top||

#5  A cost efficient way to heat a home is banned in favor of an expensive one.

The poor will be hardest hit by this. Just as intended.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/08/2019 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh well, just more natural gas to use to generate electricity

Don’t these clowns know that natural gas is used to generate electricity and as such electricity is somewhat BTU negative meaning it takes more BTUs of gas to generate the electricity than the resulting energy can produce
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/08/2019 9:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Science and Math be Hard, SPOD.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/08/2019 11:11 Comments || Top||

#8  When the reason behind regulation is said to be green you know the real reason is to increase rent seeking.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/08/2019 12:33 Comments || Top||

#9  That will significantly reduce new home sales in favour of old homes — one way to ensure the gentrification of the slums, thus pricing the poor out their former homes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2019 14:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Moving from a 90% efficient heat source to a 30% efficient heat source, that also requires vast amounts of capital to generate, makes a lot of sense to complete scientific and economic illiterates.
Posted by: Lumpy Gletle1053 || 09/08/2019 14:43 Comments || Top||


Facebook Censors Feminist Satire Site as ‘Clickbait’
[BREITBART]
Thank you @Facebook for being on the cutting edge of regulating public discourse. pic.twitter.com/mtcSqGqLnk

— Sarah Pappalardo (@yourpappalardo) September 5, 2019


Her comments echo those made by conservatives, including President Donald Trump, Breitbart News, and many Republican lawmakers, who have for years been raising the alarm about the ability of Silicon Valley tech giants to manipulate public debate on the Internet.

Talking to Gizmodo, Pappalardo blamed mistakes by Facebook’s AI for the censorship of her website.

“Bad algorithms have resulted in Reductress and actual people to be throttled or even suspended with almost no outlet to challenge the decision,” Pappalardo told Gizmodo.

“Given the nature of what we do, especially in relation to sites like Clickhole and the Onion, it’s hard to believe that there isn’t something inherently problematic in deciding that our content is ‘clickbait’ but theirs somehow isn’t.”

According to Pappalardo, Facebook cited two clickbaity headlines as a justification for their decision: “Wow! This Ethical Brand Only Sells One T-Shirt But They Worked Really Hard on it,” and “Wow! Megan Markle Just Broke Royal Protocol.”

“Clickbait” is a word that describes a form of headline on an Internet article that is designed to generate clicks, and typically direct readers to articles that do not reflect what the headline suggests. “Clickbait” has evolved into a term of disparagement for articles that over-promise in headlines and under-deliver in content.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  SJWs can't stand to be ridiculed. It displays how utterly insane they are. Censorship is required for them to not be revealed as assholes.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 09/08/2019 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Why should censorship be left in the hands of running dog capitalists and not in the hands of the representatives of the people? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/08/2019 6:03 Comments || Top||

#3  “Bad algorithms

Do these people understand where "algorithms" come from?

A bad algorithm is one that does not perform as its author(s) intended. I'm not sure that applies here any more.

A bad gun is not one that shoots and kills people, it is one that doesn't do that when that is the desired result. It's the person that is good or bad not the tool.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/08/2019 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  There are no bad algorithms. Only bad (or in this case, evil) programmers.
Posted by: Lumpy Gletle1053 || 09/08/2019 15:29 Comments || Top||


University of Alabama dean quits a day after tweets emerge where he described the US flag as 'representing a systemic history of racism'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Jamie R. Riley stepped down as University of Alabama's dean of students

  • Move comes a day after Breitbart News posted old tweets from 2017

  • Riley, who is black, tweeted the American flag represents a 'history of racism'

  • He also criticized police as 'a part of that system'
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Knew it.

Next:
- the Declaration of Independence = racism.
- the Emancipation Proclamation = white supremacy manifesto.
- the Constitution = M e i n K a m p f.
- the Kennedys = the Klan
- LBJ = Mussolini with a drawl.
- white people = "devils."

Coming soon, to a political campaign theater near you.

Posted by: Lex || 09/08/2019 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, at least he's not another "white people bad" mayo ass.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/08/2019 5:25 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Omorong Black8889 || 09/08/2019 9:30 Comments || Top||


Judge finds Toni Preckwinkle's son not guilty of assault
[CWBCHICAGO] Congratulations are in order for Kyle Preckwinkle, the 38-year-old son of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.

Yesterday, he was acquitted of misdemeanor assault in a bench trial. It’s the second time a judge has found the younger Preckwinkle not guilty of a criminal charge since 2013.

On May 3, a 65-year-old man who lives in the same building as Kyle Preckwinkle called police and reported that Preckwinkle had assaulted him. The man said he was walking up the stairs when Kyle Preckwinkle stopped him. Preckwinkle allegedly wanted to complain about noises coming from his apartment and to ask who else was in the man’s unit.

"That’s none of your business," the man reportedly said, and he continued to his home.

A short time later, Kyle Preckwinkle allegedly began repeatedly beating on the man’s door.

"Open the door, mother f*cker," Preckwinkle was accused of yelling, along with other obscenities. The police report alleged that when the man opened the door, Preckwinkle "approached in an aggressive manner while yelling, ’What you gonna do? What you gonna do, b*tch?’"

The man said he was "in fear of receiving a battery," according to the report.

But Kyle Preckwinkle was not arrested that night. He apparently didn’t even have to turn himself in to be processed by police. Instead, he was issued a summons to appear in criminal court on June 26 to face the assault allegation.

On Wednesday, Kyle Preckwinkle pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
, and Judge Robert Kuzas then found him not guilty from the bench.

In 2012, Kyle Preckwinkle was charged with misdemeanor battery. Once again, rather than being arrested, he was issued a summons to appear in court on the charge. Judge Tommy Brewer found him not guilty in a bench trial.

Kyle Preckwinkle does not appear in the reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Police Department’s online database of arrested adults. That may be because he was ordered to appear by summons rather than being booked like most people.

Court records also do not list what’s known as an "IR Number" for Kyle Preckwinkle. IR numbers, or "Individual Record" numbers, are assigned to a person when they are arrested in Cook County for the first time. That number follows the person around like a fingerprint or Social Security number, so individuals’ arrest records remain organized even if they provide fake names.

The same court files also fail to list a "CB Number" or "Central Booking Number" for either of Preckwinkle's criminal cases. The Chicago Police Department issues a new, sequential CB Number for every arrest. Lack of CB Numbers is another indication that Kyle Preckwinkle was never arrested by police.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All animals are equaĺ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/08/2019 2:50 Comments || Top||

#2  More corruption.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 09/08/2019 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  It's good to be the king - or the son of the king. (Yes, I know Toni Preckwinkle is a woman.)
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/08/2019 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Complete shitshow.
Posted by: Lex || 09/08/2019 9:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Opening scene from the Godfather as the mortician pleads for justice after the 'system' denied it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/08/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Had his mother beaten Lori Lightfoot for mayor, then his case might have not hit the courts at all.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/08/2019 11:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Even more later in the article:
All's not perfect in the Preckwinkle world, though. Sun-Times reporters last month revealed that the condo where Kyle Preckwinkle and his wife live is owned by his politically-connected mom. According to the paper, the building's association filed suit to have Kyle and his family removed from the building.

He’s supposed to be on his way out after more run-ins with police at the building, including over gunshots allegedly fired from his balcony, and a lawsuit to evict the family.

The condo association, which filed that suit, also is trying to get Toni Preckwinkle to help cover the expenses of the case, more than $15,000 in attorney fees and costs to date, which she is fighting.


The story continued.

In trying to evict [the] family, the suit cited problems including the May incident, in which somebody was “repeatedly discharging a firearm” and Kyle Preckwinkle’s “threatening” behavior.

The suit said “the Tenants continue to engage in noxious, offensive and intolerable behavior despite numerous notices to cease and desist and intervention from the Chicago Police Department.”


As of Sept. 5, no charges had been filed in connection with the purported gunshot incident.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/08/2019 12:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Shouldn't the FBI get involved with firearms allegations?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/08/2019 12:37 Comments || Top||

#9  The chitcago way
Posted by: ranture || 09/08/2019 13:29 Comments || Top||

#10  I thought Chicago banned guns, how did he get his and why didn't the police take his gun(s)?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/08/2019 17:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Tom Steyer will be in October Democrat Debates
Sept 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer, a billionaire environmentalist and political donor, said on Sunday he has qualified to participate in the fourth Democratic debate in October, putting him on stage alongside the leading contenders for the first time.

The 62-year-old former hedge fund manager from San Francisco, who is not well-known beyond political circles, will be one of 11 candidates who has met the Democratic National Committee's minimum requirements to participate in the Ohio debate on Oct. 15-16.

I think this means he also qualifies for the Democrat Presidential LGBT debate that month, assuming CNN really goes through with their plans for that.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/08/2019 18:44 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Vox: Dem Climate Debate a Success, CNN, Bernie, Dem Party winners
from a different universe than I live in
...Before the town hall, the 2020 candidates put out their comprehensive visions to combat greenhouse gases and adapt to a warming world, but in front of the cameras, they were tested on their mastery of their own material. The questions came from CNN moderators and audience members, and they ranged from carbon taxes to meat consumption to fracking bans.

For many observers and climate activists on social media, it was a surprisingly productive discussion that dealt with a core challenge the president must address in office: the exercise of executive power...
Posted by: lord garth || 09/08/2019 09:55 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A huge success, just not in the way they intended.... a clear picture of the insanity of the democrat/socialist/workers party!
Posted by: NoMOreBS || 09/08/2019 16:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Nobody cares about climate change besides desperate politicians and people who can't figure out why their tomatoes didn't do well this year.

Laughable.
Posted by: jpal || 09/08/2019 18:49 Comments || Top||

#3  "Success: because they can now run away from the subject for the rest of the Debates
Posted by: magpie || 09/08/2019 21:28 Comments || Top||


Alveda King: Bernie Sanders' Population Control Will Target Black Communities
[Breitbart] A "population control" proposal pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will target "black and brown" people, unborn children, the sick, and elderly people, said Dr. Alveda King, director of Priests for Life’s Civil Rights for the Unborn project and the niece of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.

During a Wednesday "town hall" hosted by CNN regarding "climate change," Sanders accepted the premise of population growth on Earth being "unsustainable," requiring government controls over procreation.

Sanders’s proposal, said King, reminded her of the 1973 dystopian science fiction film Soylent Green, in which overpopulation and poverty was addressed through euthanization of the elderly and processing their remains into food.

"In light of the shocking [statements] that we just heard about population control and all of that, cannibalism, many years ago, I watched a movie with Charlton Heston," recalled King. "It was called Soylent Green, and they were concerned about population growth and all that and the old people were living too long, so they came up with this delicious wafer that they began to feed the public with, and it turns out that Soylent Green was people, the older people, and they were told that they were going to Nirvana... and then they processed them and put them in this little green wafer, and I thought about that when I heard this particular report, and I said, ’My God, they’re turning us into cannibals.'"

LISTEN:
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/08/2019 03:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder what she thinks Planned Parenthood is ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/08/2019 4:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Picked right up on that, huh?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/08/2019 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  The Mall shooter in El Paso had a similar agenda to Bernie's, just postnatal. Bernie will come around eventually, all commies do.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/08/2019 8:14 Comments || Top||


Bernie Sanders speaks at Muslim Brotherhood front group convention, calls for Americans to stand together
From Tuesday, but interesting to see the company the honourable senator keeps.
[IsraelTimes] Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
got a standing ovation at the Islamic Society of North America annual convention in Houston.

Sanders spoke on Saturday to the conventions some 6,000 attendees, the first presidential candidate, along with Julian Castro, to address the gathering, the largest meeting of American Moslems.

"I am here today because I believe in the concept of solidarity, and the need for all of us, no matter where we come from or what our background is, to stand together in the struggle for justice and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
," Sanders said.

"We must speak out at hate crimes and violence targeted at the Moslem community and call it what it is: Domestic Terrorism," he also said.

He brought up his personal history, as the "proud son of Jewish immigrants colonists."

"As some of you may know, the issue of hatred and prejudice is very personal for me," he said. He noted that those in his family who remained in Poland after Hitler came to power were murdered by the Nazis.

"And the lesson I learned from that experience is how important it is for all of us to speak out forcefully whenever we see prejudice and discrimination," he said.

He reminded his audience that "in the wake of Trump’s Moslem ban, thousands of non-Moslems from all walks of life rushed to airports all across this country to stand in solidarity with Moslems."

Sanders was introduced by his campaign manager Faiz Shakir, the first Moslem to manage a major presidential campaign.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Rashida Tlaib Met with Members of Terrorist-Supporting, Pro-Palestinian Group
[BREITBART] Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) recently met with members of the terrorist-sympathizing, anti-Israel group Paleostine Youth Movement, according to a picture on social media featuring the politician with supporters of the organization.

The Washington Free Beacon first reported on Tlaib’s visit with members of the group. It reportedly took place at the Arab Texas Festival of Dallas, according to social media posts.

"Yesterday, we tabled at the Arab Texas Festival of Dallas! While doing community outreach, Paleostinian congresswoman @RashidaTlaib stopped by our table," a tweet from the group’s Twitter account read.

"Thank you Rashida for continuing to stand by your bold stances on Paleostine despite unrelenting Zionist backlash!" it added
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: PFLP

#1  This person is evil.
Get her out of our nation's legislature before she san docreal harm.
Primary her.
Posted by: Lex || 09/08/2019 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  * do real harm
Posted by: Lex || 09/08/2019 0:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Terrorism supporting, pro-Palestinian

Redundancy
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/08/2019 2:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Ratshita
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/08/2019 19:13 Comments || Top||


Adios, Think Progress
[POWERLINEBLOG] The site has also faced criticism that it has tailored its reporting to demands from the Center for American Progress, which receives funding from wealthy liberal donors and some foreign governments.

CAP’s affiliation with Bill and Hillary Clinton has also been a sore spot for the think tank and ThinkProgress. John Podesta, the Hillary Clinton campaign chairman and Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, founded CAP in 2003. Neera Tanden, a former Clinton White House aide and longtime Clinton booster, is president of the think tank.

Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign showed that Judd Legum, the founder of ThinkProgress, provided the Clinton campaign with strategies on how to go after Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

These days, Bill and Hillary are politicians without a party. The Democrats have moved on, farther to the left. The demise of Think Progress is perhaps a consequence of that shift.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These days, Bill and Hillary are politicians without a party. The Democrats have moved on, farther to the left. The demise of Think Progress is perhaps a consequence of that shift.
It is also a geographic shift where the Democratic party openly discards all of the "Deplorables" and white subhumans living in Flyover Country™. Bill Clinton tried to appeal to them and won -- but the Party apparatchiks have purged his faction since then. The opening moves of this realignment were clear were clear back in 1973 after the embarrassing collapse of the McGovern Campaign.
Posted by: magpie || 09/08/2019 4:50 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2019-09-08
  Pakistan denies Indian president's request to use its airspace for overflight
Sat 2019-09-07
  Taliban loses deputy intelligence chief, dozens of militants in Farah city clash
Fri 2019-09-06
  Comrade Robert ''Bob'' Mugabe Finally Croaks at 95
Thu 2019-09-05
  Arrested Terrorist Admits Being Pak National, Says Many Waiting At Launching Pads
Wed 2019-09-04
  Libya's Coast Guard rescues over 100 migrants off the coast of Sabratha
Tue 2019-09-03
   Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill over 100
Mon 2019-09-02
  Haftar's forces strike Murzuq in southern Libya
Sun 2019-09-01
  Live blog at this link on IDF vs Hezbollah current battle.
Sat 2019-08-31
  Islamic State claims suicide bomb attack on separatist fighters in Yemen's Aden
Fri 2019-08-30
  28 Taliban militants killed, wounded in Balkh operations
Thu 2019-08-29
  Israel Police Arrest Palestinian Trying To Enter Court With Pipe Bomb
Wed 2019-08-28
  Drone belonging to #Haftar destroys an ambulance
Tue 2019-08-27
  VIDEO LINK MUSK DID IT! Starhopper flys and LANDS!
Mon 2019-08-26
  IED exploded outside holding area of Pak Consulate General in Jalalabad
Sun 2019-08-25
  Taliban militants kidnap a member of Provincial Council from Samangan-Baghlan Highway


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