Long, lurid, Ay Pee is bathing in it, and I’m concerned because the rest of the world is not cynical about such reports. Herewith a taste:
[Rudaw] US Navy intelligence specialist Colleen Grace was asleep on a remote air base in Iraq in 2019 when she was woken up by knocking on the door next to her room, and then a voice she recognized.
The voice belonged to a Navy corpsman she knew. He was upset and speaking loudly to the Army colonel who lived next door. Grace heard the corpsman say that a sailor who attended a Fourth of July barbecue had just been raped by a member of the Navy SEAL platoon on the base. The corpsman asked the colonel what to do because the victim was afraid that if she reported the incident, retribution would follow.
"And that’s real," Grace heard Hospitalman First Class Gustavo Llerenes tell Col. Thomas Collins, a physician’s assistant with the Florida National Guard. "It’s a good ol’ boy’s network."
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Real hot shots don't think the rules apply...because they've been given breaks before.
That said, I have a (late) relation who was on track to be screwed over by Army JAG to protect higher, until exculpatory evidence was extracted from the prosecution.
And the Haditha Marines were screwed over on account of a bogus article in Time magazine.
Higher will throw Joe under the bus to stay on good terms with the NYT editorial page.
So, while my first reaction to the story was anger, my continuing feeling is caution.
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Jacked up on 'field rations', coming down from mission adrenaline. Dudes need to be put in a cage and fed 'ludes.
The chemical conspiracy.
Coverup is as criminal as the act.
[Jpost] The United States on Friday closed lanes at select ports of entry at the border with Mexico and will conduct more secondary checks in a bid to limit non-essential travel and the spread of 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... , a US Customs and Border Protection official said.
Non-essential travel has been restricted at the border for several months, but has mostly been applied to Mexican citizens. The new measures appeared to be aimed at U.S. citizens and legal residents living in Mexico."The vast majority of cross-border travel by US citizens and lawful permanent residents is for purposes that are not deemed essential," El Paso CBP front man Roger Maier said.
[AlAhram] Mali's military junta has released two senior government officials detained during the coup against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, an ally of Keita said, as U.N. human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. officials met overnight with the ousted leader.
There has been no word from Keita since Tuesday, when he dissolved parliament and then resigned after being detained at gunpoint, deepening the crisis facing a country already struggling to fend off an insurgency by Islamist holy warriors.
The release of Finance Minister Abdoulaye Daffe and the president's private secretary, Sabane Mahalmoudou, came as junta leaders held discussions with politicians about creating a transitional authority.
"They were freed but I don't know in what condition," the head of Keita's party, Bocary Treta, told Rooters.
A United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... human rights team visited Keita and other detainees late on Thursday, the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSMA, said. It provided no details on what was said or on the condition of the captives.
The streets of the capital Bamako were calm for the third straight day on Friday ahead of a rally planned by an opposition coalition that led protests against Keita before the coup and has since embraced the mutineers.
[AlAhram] More than 100 Ghanaians stranded in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... have returned home on the first voluntary migrant repatriation flight from Libya since the 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... pandemic began, the UN migration agency said Friday.
Most of the 118 passengers on the charter flight from the Libyan capital to Accra were male migrant workers, but seven women, three children and two infants were also onboard, the International Organization for Migration said.
"Many of them had been working in Libya for years," IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli told news hounds at the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... in Geneva.
"Others had arrived in the past few years but due to the severity of the conflict and the COVID-19 situation, they found themselves out of jobs, out of income, were stranded and have decided to go home."
Some had been sleeping on the streets and were provided with shelter during the five-month halt to the IOM's voluntary humanitarian return programme.
At least 2,300 people in Libya have registered for the programme. A repatriation flight to Bangladesh is planned for September, while one due to fly to Mali next week has been put on hold due to the coup in the west African country.
The scheme is "a critical lifeline for migrants colonists wishing to return home", said Msehli.
In the first quarter of 2020, it helped 1,466 stranded migrants colonists return from Libya, she said.
Last year, nearly 9,800 people returned to 34 countries across Africa and Asia.
- MIGRATION ROUTE -
Libya has been in chaos ever since the 2011 overthrow and killing of leader Moamer Qadaffy in a 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... -backed uprising, though its warring rival administrations said Friday that they would cease all hostilities and organise nationwide elections soon.
And since the ousting of Qadaffy, Libya has become a key route for irregular migration from Africa into Europe, across the Mediterranean Sea.
At least 45 migrants colonists and refugees perished off Libya this week in the deadliest shipwreck there so far this year, the UN said on Wednesday.
The 37 rescued survivors were mainly from Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Mali, Chad and Ghana.
The latest tragedy brings to 302 the known number of migrants colonists and refugees to have perished on the Mediterranean route so far this year.
"The insecurity at the border and the lack of monitoring at the border does not allow us to have a clear idea of how many people are making their way into Libya, or how many people attempt to cross the Mediterranean," said Msehli.
"We did see many cases where hundreds of migrants colonists were stranded or left by smugglers between the Niger and Libya border, signalling that smuggling and trafficking activity continues towards the country."
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Lt. Col. Semelroth tells VOA DOD looking at other #Mali ans who participated in US training & may have played role in mutiny..DOD assessing "any potential impacts on our assistance. Until review is complete, there will be no further training or support to the Malian armed forces”
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My mistake. President dissolved parliament after the coup. There have a lot protests against corruption before the coup and soldiers weren't getting paid, a capital offense in a kleptocracy.
[FoxNews] The use of National Guard reconnaissance planes in four U.S. cities to monitor the widespread protests earlier this year didn't violate rules against the military collecting intelligence on Americans, a Pentagon report has concluded.
The investigation by the Air Force inspector general found that the planes were used to gather information about crowd size, crowd flows and fires but they did not monitor individuals. The probe was ordered by Defense Secretary Mark Esper in response to questions within the department and Congress about whether the military illegally conducted surveillance of American citizens during the unrest after the death of George Floyd.
The surveillance aircraft were used in four locations. And while the report found no intelligence gathering violations, it concluded that the Defense Department doesn't have adequate rules for the use of the RC-26 plane and that the aircraft is incorrectly considered to be a non-intelligence platform.
The plane is flown by the National Guard, and most often is used for counterdrug operations and in disasters to assess damage, help locate civilians and for other similar missions.
The investigation reviewed seven flights by the aircraft in Minnesota, Arizona, California and Washington, D.C. If found that while the sensors on the aircraft could show buildings and vehicles, they “were not capable of identifying any distinguishing features of people” and they did not have the capability of collecting information from cellphones or radios.
The report, submitted by the Air Force inspector general, Lt. Gen. Sami Said, said the RC-26 should be considered an intelligence aircraft, which would require more senior approvals for the use of the plane and more strict guidance on the missions.
The use of the surveillance planes was not approved by Esper, because officials did not think that was required. But the report concludes the defense secretary should have final approval over those missions. It also found that Pentagon policies about the approval and use of the aircraft were vague and needed to be tightened.
The Air Force report did not look into the use of helicopters by the National Guard in Washington, where there were reports that they hovered low over protesters, creating a deafening noise and spraying the crowd with rotor wash.
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Nobody said much about FBI aerial surveillance back in April of 1993 at Waco. Over 70 people actually turned up dead during that episode, women and kids also.
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"So Boris, we blow the crap out of Istanbul , blame the Greeks and/or the Israeli's , then move in with "humanitarian aid" , and we have warm water ports. "
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Im not in favor of Russia annexing Turkey, but honestly it couldn't happen to a better bunch of a-holes than the Turks. Cut the Kurds loose in SE Turkey would be all they need to do to destabilize the entire region, and after the US has screwed the Kurds over so many times, I bet they'd play ball with the Russians, giving the Russians instant leverage in Syria, Iraq and Iran as well as all the mineral and oil areas in SE Turkey.
Putin plays chess, doesn't he?
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Putie is a bit short in the cash department, and with a world awash in fossil fuels for the moment, some of that will be hard to do. But, Imagine SloJoe or the MatressWiggler facing Putie eyeball to eyeball?
Attorney General William Barr said the DOJ will appeal judge's ruling last month that tossed death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
In last month's ruling, judge ordered a trial to determine whether the 27-year-old should be executed for the attack that killed three and wounded 260 people
Barr said: 'We will do whatever's necessary. We will take it to the Supereme Court and we will continue to pursue the death penalty
Under Barr, the Justice Department has again begun carrying out federal executions, putting three men to death so far
It has scheduled at least three more executions next week and in September
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[AlAhram] The United States on Friday said it was imposing visa restrictions on 13 Iranian individuals for their involvement in "gross violations of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... " regarding a 1990 liquidation of an Iranian opposition figure in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... It did not disclose the names of the individuals.
In a statement, State Department said it was also designating Hojatollah Khodaei Souri, who it said as director of Iran's Evin Prison ran an institution "synonymous with torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese security apparatus is allegedly concerned over reports of Ottoman Turkish arms shipments to the country, al-Arabiya reported on Wednesday.
According to the publication, three diplomats said they are ’hearing’ about Ottoman Turkish-backed arms movements in certain parts of Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... Citing an intelligence official, the Lebanese Army recently monitored an alleged distribution of arms in the northern part of the country.
"We are pretty worried about what’s going on. The Turks are sending an incredible amount of weapons into the north," the intelligence source said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's gun out of his hand...... another official said that they are maintaining contact with the U.S. about ths supply of arms that are flowing into the country.
"We are keeping an eye on it and staying in contact with the United States administration," the diplomat said.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has yet to comment on these allegations from al-Arabiya.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...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...
...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...
Nobody said much about FBI aerial surveillance back in April of 1993 at Waco. Over 70 people actually turned up dead during that episode, women and kids also. 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
