[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A 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... -based group called Defund CPD Campaign is advocating for the abolition of the Chicago Police Department's "racist" gang database, stating that a vast majority of individuals listed are Black or "Latinx."
"Another racist surveillance tool used to criminalize is CPD's gang database. Of the 500,000 Gang Arrest Cards recorded, 95% of the individuals designated as gang members were Black and Latinx, with 91.3% of all individuals being male," a Twitter post from the Defund CPD Campaign reads.
The database has been heavily criticized by advocacy groups, with many saying that it targets certain neighborhoods or races.
Following criticism, the city council took steps towards reforming it last month, allowing the Chicago Police Board to hear appeals from those who want their names removed and feel they were wrongfully added, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
"Finally, Chicagoans who have been wrongly included will have the right to have their names deleted and get on with their lives, whether it's getting a job, volunteering at their child's school or being able to rent a place to live," the outlet wrote.
A 2019 audit by now-former Inspector General Joe Ferguson's office concluded that the database was a "deeply flawed collection of gang data, with poor quality controls and inadequate protections for procedural rights."
A draft policy of changes to the database published in November includes in addition to the opportunity for appeal, "also includes a rule mandating gang designations be purged after five years absent new confirmation of active gang involvement, restrictions on sharing the information with outside agencies and stricter criteria and oversight for adding someone to the gang database in the first place," according to WBEZ.
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Given statistically Blacks Gangs and Thugs tend to kill other blacks Gangs members and Thugs PLUS Black Community Members. At documented ratios of something like 9 to 1 over Whites and 18+ to 1 over police.
So if the Police were to "eliminate" Black Gangs and Thugs in the Black Community, wouldn't they be saving the Black Community members Lives that actually do Matters?
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The database is redundant. Rules of ornithology should apply. Something akin to documenting the residents of Munster steeples. We sort of know why they fly with twigs and small branches.
[ToloNews] At least 80 ISIS members surrendered to the Islamic Emirate in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, the provincial media relations department said on Sunday.
According to the department, the ISIS members surrendered to the Islamic Emirate through the mediation of tribal elders.
Dr. Bashir, director of intelligence for Nangarhar province, said these ISIS members are residents of 10 districts in the province, the media relations department said in a series of tweets.
The department said that considering the general amnesty, these men have been granted amnesty.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard... the surrendered ISIS members said they will support the Islamic Emirate.
Tribal elders also said if anyone provides housing to ISIS members in the province, their homes will be set on fire and the hosts themselves will be expelled.
US allows money transfer to Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] US Department of Treasury announced that they have made a regulation based on which people will be allowed to transfer money to Afghanistan. The new regulation was announced on Saturday, December 11 and it will lift sanctions on all those who are involved in the transfer.
The money will reportedly solve the problem to a certain extent but the spokesperson of the department has said that Afghanistan’s ongoing situation is not because of US sanctions on the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and added that the new regulation will not solve the problem either.
As per the regulations, the money transfer will too be conducted if the process includes the names of members of the Haqqani network ...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani... -who are banned- but the purpose of the money should not be traded but rather personal.
MoneyGram and Western Union are the only means of money transfer to Afghanistan that resumed their operations in September.
UK to allocate nearly $100 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] As Afghanistan is still suffering from potentially the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, Unite Kingdom has announced that they will allocate the US $99.5 or 75 million pounds in humanitarian aids to Afghanistan.
The Foreign Ministry of the UK has added that 34 million pounds of 75 million will be given to World Food Program (WFP).
The allocation of money comes hours after foreign ministers of G7 met in Liverpool on Saturday, December 11, and discussed the world’s conflicts including Afghanistan.
The UK has reportedly doubled its humanitarian aids to $380 million for Afghanistan and the region this year.
[Garowe] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has donated sophisticated military equipment to the federal republic of Somalia, a country that has struggled for stability for the last four decades, and the most recent rise of insurgency.
The drones had been delivered early this month in the country and would be used by the Somali National Army [SNA] in the fight against al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... bully boys, who are the biggest threat to the Horn of Africa nation.
For the last several years, Turkey has been arming and training Somalia’s army at Camp TurkSom
...such a clever name, to be sure...
- its extensive military base and defense university - in recent years, providing G3 assault rifles and armored vehicles.
Turkey trains and equips the elite Gorgor of the SNA and Haramcadcoppers in both at a large military base in Mogadishu and its country.
Turkey-trained Somali soldiers have, for years, been fighting against al-Shabaab bully boys. Still, a drawn political crisis in Somalia has raised fears among international partners that the Somali military will be entangled in local conflicts.
Somali opposition accused Turkey of sending arms to Somalia that Farmajo has used to silence press freedom and attack his critics as well as demolish the Federal States.
[AlAhram] Egypt is a key supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Ottoman Turkish market, with seven cargoes shipped in the fourth quarter of 2021, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Global said.
President Sisi is working hard to make Egypt financially more independent, despite loathing the wannabe neo-Ottoman sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan (first of that name).
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Bahrain’s foreign ministry has denounced Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... for hosting a presser for individuals it described as "hostile personnel" on terror lists with the purpose of "broadcasting and promoting abusive and malicious allegations against the Kingdom of Bahrain.""The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its deep regret and denunciation that the Lebanese capital Beirut hosted a presser for hostile personnel designated on supporting and sponsoring terrorism lists, with the purpose of broadcasting and promoting abusive and malicious allegations against the Kingdom of Bahrain," the ministry said in a statement.
Bahrain’s foreign ministry said it had submitted a "strong formal protest" to the Lebanese government regarding the recent move.
The Ministry added that an official note verbale of protest was sent to the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in this regard, containing the Kingdom of Bahrain's denunciation of this unfriendly step by the Lebanese side. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the Lebanese government to prevent such reprehensible practices that aim to offend the Kingdom of Bahrain, and are inconsistent with the most basic diplomatic norms and the brotherly relations between the two people," the ministry added.
In October, Bahrain asked the Lebanese ambassador to its kingdom to leave within the next 48 hours, against the background of a series of unacceptable and offensive statements and stances issued by Lebanese officials recently.
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[IsraelTimes] Opposition Likud MK Nir Barkat claims in interview some in Iran’s leadership more interested in destroying Israel than their own survival, says rockets from Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... must be met with IDF response against Tehran.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] If elections are held in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... , a crisis of identity could burst into Lebanese political life, or what is left of it. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... even if those elections are not held, the outcome would likely not be very different. At least three political forces are facing this crisis: the Aounists, Harirists, and Berrists, or according to their party names: the Free Patriotic Movement
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[An Nahar] Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut Elias Aude on Sunday slammed the parties who are attempting to "conceal the truth and the criminals" in the Beirut port blast case, at a mass marking the 16th anniversary of the liquidation of Gebran Tueni."It is no longer acceptable for the government to remain paralyzed in its decisions and actions nor to remain subject to a political minority that acts as the ruling majority," Aude quoted Tueni as saying prior to his liquidation.
"As if Gebran was speaking about what’s happening today," he added.
"Tueni said in 2005 that the unveiling of the truth would mean that criminals, whoever they may be and wherever they may be, would no longer enjoy protection, but we were surprised by many crimes, topped by the capital’s explosion, and we were not surprised by the attempt to conceal the truth and the criminals," the Metropolitan went on to say.
Lamenting that "we’ve become used to hearing about such issues because this approach has deepened in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade... ," Aude decried that "the absence of holding any culprit accountable has led us to this lawlessness and to insulting the judiciary and judges and evading justice."
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[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... on Sunday called on the defense and interior ministries to explain the circumstances of Friday’s explosions at the Paleostinian refugee camp of al-Bourj al-Shamali."We want the official and complete account of events for the blast that went off Friday at the al-Bourj al-Shamali camp in the city of Tyre so that we react accordingly," Geagea said in a tweet.
The Paleostinian Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, group said Saturday that the earth-shattering kabooms were caused by an electrical short-circuit in a storage area for oxygen bottles used to treat 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... patients.
Later in the day however, a Lebanese security official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency that the earth-shattering kaboom in the camp was clearly ammunition -- not oxygen bottles.
Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... 's state-run National News Agency had reported late Friday that arms stored for Hamas went kaboom! Friday in the camp, killing and injuring a number of people. Hamas in a statement Saturday described the earth-shattering kabooms as an "incident" adding that a fire in the camp caused limited damage.
In a later statement, the group said that one of its members, Hamza Chahine, was killed. It called on its supporters to take part in his funeral on Sunday afternoon at a mosque in the camp.
Hamas said the oxygen bottles and containers of detergents stored at the camp were to be distributed as part of its aid work in the camp.
"Hamas condemns the misleading media campaign and the spread of false news that accompanied the incident," the murderous Moslem group said in its statement. It added that reports about the cause of the blast and the "deaths of dozens" are baseless.
Immediately after the blasts, Lebanese troops deployed around the camp and briefly prevented people from entering or leaving.
NNA said the state prosecutor in southern Lebanon has asked security agencies and arms experts to inspect the Hamas "arms storage" site inside the camp.
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[IsraelTimes] Current and former American military and intelligence officials tell The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that a covert US army cell operating repeatedly killed civilians as collateral damage in its operations against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror group in Syria.
Given how excited the New York Times clearly is, we have to wonder how far from the truth their journalism might be.
The unit called Talon Anvil was active between 2014 and 2019 striking convoys, boom-mobiles, command centers and squads of enemy fighters, NYT says.
But NYT sources says the cell "circumvented rules imposed to protect noncombatants," sometimes killing farmers in the middle of their harvest, children on the street, fleeing families, and villagers sheltering in buildings.
We also must wonder how many of the killed suddenly became civilians when they dropped the weapons in their hands.
"They were ruthlessly efficient and good at their jobs," says one former Air Force intelligence officer who was with the unit from 2016 to 2018. "But they also made a lot of bad strikes."
Update from the Daily Mail with lots of incidents at 9:15 a.m. ET, courtesy of Skidmark. Their bullet points:
A small American strike cell alarmed CIA and Airforce officials by killing countless civilians as they launches airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria
Between 2014 and 2017, operation Talon Anvil routinely flouted safeguard procedures, sources told the New York Times, to function at the 'speed of war'
In the process, they obscured the number of civilians they killed in their operations, and averted drone cameras at the moment that missiles would hit
The cell played an 'outsize' role in the 112,000 bombs and missiles aimed at the Islamic State while the so-called caliphate was in operation
Former Department of Defense and Pentagon adviser Larry Lewis said that casualties were ten times higher in Syria than in similar missions in Afghanistan
'It was higher than I would have expected from a U.S. unit,' he said. 'The fact that it increased dramatically and steadily over a period of years shocked me'
Overseeing strike after strike, one source said, seemed to 'erode operators' perspective and fray their humanity'
The NYT is also concerned that the operators wore civvies and beards instead appearing neat and trim in their uniforms.
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Not to belittle this accident.
But of course accidents happen in war.
But The Talon Anvil operators were focused on a building, and had viable INTEL that it was an enemy training center.
So looking broadly at Talon Anvil operational mission. It acted kinda like a FO for Terrorist strike eliminations.
OPEN QUESTION:
NYT's with its Anti-Military, vilify any success regarding the war on terrorism, and it well known strong Anti-USA mission story agenda. NYT's ...How also about covering their 100's, if not 1000's of successful terrorist eliminations? Which saved 10's of 1000's of lives. Or the lives that it cost Talon Anvil operative team members? Or is the goal to be one sided, discredit our military, and stomp on it as LIBERAL RAG you are now.
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It's called war... In all 1,570 French cities and towns were bombed by the Allies between June 1940 and May 1945. The total number of civilians killed was 68,778, mostly elderly (including the 2,700 civilians killed in Royan)
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Note the update from the Daily Mail, and scan the entire article to get a better feel for those who fed the information to the New York Times.
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Also, it occurs to me that this unit was stood up in 2014, making it a President Obama project and, since he closely managed all WoT killing, one whose actions he would have been aware of — though clearly the article means to tar President Trump and the Army with the accusation of wanton murder.
Me, I look at ISIS and see a society of eager, complicit volunteers and the conquered in their particular Hell. I, too, am reminded of the carpet bombing of WWII.
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In guerrilla warfare it is extremely difficult to tell the combatants from the civilians when no one wears a uniform and everyone is lugging around an AK
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[IsraelTimes] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... appears to be preparing for a space launch, as negotiations continue in Vienna over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers, according to an expert and satellite images.
The likely blast-off at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Spaceport comes as Iranian state media has offered a list of upcoming planned satellite launches in the works for the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s civilian space program, which has been beset by a series of failed launches. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard runs its own parallel program that successfully put a satellite into orbit last year.
Conducting a launch amid the Vienna talks fits the hardline posture struck by Tehran’s negotiators, who already described six previous rounds of diplomacy as a "draft," exasperating Western nations. Germany’s new foreign minister has gone as far as to warn that "time is running out for us at this point."
But all this fits into a renewed focus on space by Iran’s hardline President Ebrahim Raisi, said Jeffrey Lewis, an expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies who studies Tehran’s program. With Iran’s former 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... , who shepherded the nuclear deal out of office, concerns about alienating the talks with launches that the US asserts aids Tehran’s ballistic missile program likely have faded.
"They’re not walking on eggshells," Lewis said. "I think Raisi’s people have a new balance in mind."
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[AlAhram] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... plans to cut oil output and prioritise defence spending in its 2022-2023 draft budget because of sanctions and US-Israeli threats linked to its nuclear programme.
Iranian news agencies reported that the draft, presented Sunday, projects GDP growth of eight percent.
President Ebrahim Raisi submitted the draft to parliament for a vote expected by the end of 2021.
In Iran, the New Year starts on March 21.
Iran plans to produce 1.2 million barrels per day at a projected price of $60 a barrel. That is down from 2.3 million bpd at a price of $40 a barrel, leaving revenues of $26.3 billion against $33.5 billion in the last budget.
Industry experts say the estimate is too high, given that Iran currently sells around 600,000 barrels a day.
Oil sales account for a quarter of revenues in the budget, with another 25 percent from a sharp increase in taxes.
The 2022-2023 budget allocates about $5 billion to boost "defence capacities and strategic research", Tasnim news agency said, up from $4 billion the previous year.
Washington, which has imposed stringent sanctions on Tehran, warned in October of "other options" if diplomacy fails on Iran's nuclear programme, while Israel has reserved the right to use force.
A 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers has been disintegrating since then US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... pulled out three years later.
The accord ensured sanctions relief for Iran in return for tight curbs on its nuclear programme.
Trump also re-introduced sanctions, including on its oil exports, prompting Tehran to start disregarding the deal's limits on its nuclear activities in 2019.
Trump's successor Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... has said he wants the US to return to the agreement, but international negotiations in Vienna on reviving the accord have so far failed to make significant progress.
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probably Iran is going to cut oil output because they have damaged some of the reservoirs by over pumping or faulty maintenance
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[JPost] Yet the Kalorama Kouple love them some Ayatollahs The state’s Sharia law system imposes the death penalty on same-sex relations
The 6G Iranian and Lesbian and Transgender Network reported Tuesday on its website that an Iranian lesbian named Sarah was arrested in the province of West Azerbaijan while seeking to cross the border into Turkey.
The Islamic Republic’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Sarah in November and, according to the pro-Iran Tasnim news agency, individuals were detained on charges of "forming a gang for trafficking girls and supporting homosexuality." The Iranian theocratic state’s Sharia law system imposes the death penalty on same-sex relations.
According to an IRGC statement, one of the charges against the vague "trafficking network" was "communicating and supporting homosexual groups" who "operated under the auspices of the trans-regional intelligence services."
The Islamic Republic’s security forces frequently charge dissidents, protestors against the regime and minorities with nebulous allegations of violating national security.
The Persian word for 6G is Shesh rang and embodies the six colors of the LGBTQ+ flag.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
The database is redundant. Rules of ornithology should apply. Something akin to documenting the residents of Munster steeples. We sort of know why they fly with twigs and small branches. 
[ToloNews] At least 80 
...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani...
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
