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-Great Cultural Revolution
Journalist to sue New York Times after false depiction in US Capitol riot documentary
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A journalist announced Thursday that they plan to sue The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

after the paper released a 40-minute documentary on Thursday featuring "visual investigations" regarding the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, which falsely depicting him as a rioter.

Independent journalist Brendon Leslie said that The New York Times documentary titled How Trump Supporters Took the US Capitol: Visual Investigations, not only falsely depicted him as a rioter, but "hijacked" his content without approval.

According to a producer with The New York Times, Haley Willis, the selectively-edited propaganda documentary was created over the course of six months and consisted of a "massive team effort."

"Our Visual Investigations team synchronized and mapped thousands of videos of the US Capitol riot to provide the most complete picture to date of what happened on Jan. 6. We went to court to unseal police body camera footage, scoured law enforcement radio communications and interviewed witnesses," Willis said.

The New York Times recently issued a correction to their reporting on the US Capitol riot and retracted claims that Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick was killed by a Trump supporter with a fire extinguisher. The paper used anonymous sources to substantiate the false claim.

Related: Florida’s Conservative Voice, founded and edited by professional journalist Brandon Leslie.
Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 

Sources show B-boy is having mental issues

Sources show state K-Girl smoked a few "cigars"☺ to get promoted.

Sources show P-Girl has a drinking problem.

Sources show audit of a humanitarian relief fund that C-Girl and C-Guy skimmed $$ Millions.

Vs. NYT Anonymous Sources say.....

QUESTION:
Given the protections afforded the MEDIA.
SHOULDN'T THE MEDIA be required to at least factually document and label (Verified Fact/Editorial Opinion or etc.) what it presents?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/03/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Army upgrades awards for 'Black Hawk Down' special operators
[FoxNews] The U.S. Army is upgrading the combat awards for 60 veterans who served in Operation Gothic Serpent in 1993, a battle in Somalia more commonly known as "Black Hawk Down" for its pop culture portrayals.

Fifty-eight of the service members who fought in the battle will see their awards upgraded to Silver Stars while the other two will be upgraded to Distinguished Flying Crosses, according to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command.

"On the afternoon of Oct. 3, [1993] armed militants shot down two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, after which U.S. ground forces converged on the two downed aircraft to recover the personnel," an Army press release read. "The ensuing intense firefight resulted in the loss of 18 American Soldiers and remains an especially significant point in the history of the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Special Operations Command specifically."

The upgrades happened after former Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy directed the board in charge of such awards to revisit awards that had already been issued.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For what purpose ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2021 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Photo Op for the political overseers: Potemkin All The Way Down.
Posted by: magpie || 07/03/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Perhaps, but I seen dis movie, and there was a lot of heroics.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/03/2021 3:25 Comments || Top||

#4  I guess the upgrades were a compromise to the decision to head back to Somalia.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/03/2021 6:15 Comments || Top||

#5  ...but, but, more whites will get that than you know who. Gotta be racist! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||

#6  eye patches free rum for life and pirate ship shaped garbage cans at the va and a harem of disease infested somali crack whores!
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 07/03/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
MoI to Probe Govt Forces Withdrawal from Districts' Centers
[ToloNews] Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) will probe recent evacuations by government forces from the centers of various districts across the country.

Over the last two months, the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
has taken over dozens of districts across Afghanistan, raising strong criticisms among the public and analysts who are citing poor leadership and mismanagement of the war as key reason that the Taliban has taken over large swaths of land in the country.

Reports say that in some districts as instances in Shireen Tagab and Pashtun Kot and Qaisar districts of Faryab, and Qarabagh and Muqur districts of Ghazni, hundreds of security force members surrendered to the Taliban without any resistance.

"There is speculation that the security forces were asked not to fight, but it is not confirmed who said this," said MP Khan Agha Rezaee.

In the past two months Taliban has taken control of more than 120 districts.

In the past two months Taliban has taken control of more than 120 districts.
"Investigation is underway to find out the main reason," said Gen. Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal, the acting minister of interior.

Referring to the factors behind the evacuations, the Ministry of Defense said that lack of equipment and delay in the delivery of emergency assistance to the security forces are among the factors that have led to the problem.

"We evacuated some areas in order to prevent casualties among civilians and military personnel, and to prevent the damage to residential areas and delay in on time delivery of supplies to our personnel," said Rohullah Ahmadzai, front man for the Ministry of Defense.

Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of Afghan intelligence agency, said that the Taliban is seeking to takeover some strategic and important areas.

"The Taliban want to expand fighting in central provinces and to take control over the supply routes to Kabul and then go to the negotiating table where they will make major demands, and if their demands not met, they will focus on other objectives they seek," said Nabil.

Taliban significantly increased their offensive after foreign troops started withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Long War Journal proves perspective:
Prior to the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
offensive, which began in earnest on May 1, the date that the U.S. government originally committed to completing its withdraw under the Doha agreement, the Taliban controlled 73 of Afghanistan’s 407 districts, and contested 210, according to an ongoing assessment by FDD’s Long War Journal. The Biden administration moved the withdraw date to Sept. 11, 2021, the 20-year anniversary of Al Qaeda’s attack on American soil — which it plotted and executed largely from Afghanistan.

The Taliban began to seize territory once the May 1 deadline expired, and as of June 29, 2021, now controls 157 districts. Much of the Taliban gains are in the north, and that has put multiple scenic provincial capitals under threat. Taliban fighters have entered the cities of Kunduz and Pul-e-Khumri and are on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif and Taloqan. Other scenic provincial capitals, such as Maimana and Faizabad, are under direct Taliban threat.

The Taliban has largely gained ground in districts that were previously contested. The number of contested districts dropped from 210 on May 1 to 157 today. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
at least 10 districts flipped entirely from government controlled to Taliban controlled without ever being labeled as contested.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2021 00:06 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


US Forces Leave Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan
[ToloNews] After nearly two decades, the US military has left the Bagram Airfield in central Afghanistan and has handed it over to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, sources from the Ministry of Defense confirmed.

At its peak, the airfield, located 69 kilometers north of Kabul in the central province of Parwan, saw more than 100,000 US troops pass through its compound.

The handover of the airfield to Afghan forces shows that last of the roughly 2,500 to 3,500 US troops have left Afghanistan.

Ahead of leaving the base, dozens of trailer trucks loaded with scrap from destroyed vehicles and equipment that belonged to American troops were leaving the Bagram Airfield on a daily basis.

Those who purchase the material say that so far, the scrap has been worth millions of dollars.

Some residents of Bagram said that such equipment should have been handed over to Afghan forces instead of being scrapped by the US military. But US forces have said the equipment will be scrapped so it does not fall into enemy hands.

The Afghan government has said that equipment worth $1 billion will be handed over to the Afghan forces.

Bagram Airfield has been the biggest airbase of the US military in Afghanistan over the last 20 years. US forces started a withdrawal on May 1, a process that is expected to be completed earlier than the given deadline — Sept. 11.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Good.
Posted by: Spoter B || 07/03/2021 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine if we had kept all that money and spent it on ourselves. We could have had free college, free healthcare, a border wall 100 feet tall, and ice cream for everyone.
Posted by: Jiggs Trotsky5854 || 07/03/2021 1:26 Comments || Top||


Daesh Building Up Forces in Northern Afghanistan: Lavrov
[ToloNews] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said that ISIS turbans are building up their forces in northern Afghanistan as US and 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...
troops are leaving the country, calling it a worry for Moscow.

Quoted in a report by Rooters, Lavrov said ISIS was actively gaining territory in Afghanistan amid the withdrawal and what he described as the "irresponsible" stance taken by officials in Kabul.

"It is also important to pay attention to Afghanistan, where ISIS (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....
) is actively concentrating its forces. And they do it using the unforgivably prolonged process of preparing real peace negotiations. And those in the ruling structures of Afghanistan who are trying in every possible way to delay this process even more, of course, should think about the consequences of these actions for their homeland," Lavrov said as quoted by Rooters.

Lavrov said that ISIS is taking the advantage of the current situation to develop its territories in Afghanistan.

"This worries us because in the conditions of the irresponsible behavior of some officials in Kabul, in the conditions of the rash withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan, which has left not a single possibility to report on the completion of at least some tasks. Under these conditions, ISIS is actively developing territories, primarily in the north of Afghanistan, right on the border with countries that are our allies," he said as quoted by Rooters.

This comes amidst a sharp rise in Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attacks in northern Afghanistan where they have captured dozens of districts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Be funny if the Rooskies invaded Afghanistan again. To preserve regional stability or whatever. Everything old is new again! Just like we're going thru the Carter-Biden years. Gawd, I hope we're not in some kind of time-loop.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/03/2021 22:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Not to worry...

An alley. A cold Coca-Cola.
A close-up of skipping Victrola.
A planet revolves.
We pull back, it resolves
To a ball, and Jehovah the bowler.
Posted by: Sheba B. Bridges6348 || 07/03/2021 23:52 Comments || Top||


Biden cuts off Afghanistan questions to 'talk about happy things'
[NYPOST] A testy President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name......
on Friday cut off news hounds who were peppering him with questions about Afghanistan potentially falling to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
once US troops fully withdraw — telling them he would take their "negative" questions another time.

Biden, who met last week with Afghan leaders, said "I want to talk about happy things, man" when he received a third question on Afghanistan at an event celebrating jobs growth in June.

When a news hound attempted to ask a fourth question on Afghanistan, Biden said: "I’m not gonna answer any more questions on Afghanistan. Look, it’s Fourth of July [weekend]."

The president said, "You guys are asking me questions that I’ll answer next week. But this is a holiday weekend. I’m going to celebrate it. There’s great things happening."

Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Strange, I kind of agree with him on this; the A'stan cr*p is barely news anymore, but a celebration of our independence now is.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/03/2021 10:03 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Members of Libyan Political Dialogue Forum meeting in Switzerland have failed to agree on a constitutional basis which will derail December elections
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Burkina Faso Sacks Defence Minister Amid Growing Protests
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  damn, really hate to hear that
Posted by: Chris || 07/03/2021 1:48 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Soldier who fatally shot armed BLM protestor charged with murder
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The US Army soldier who fatally shot an armed protestor after driving into the thick of a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas last summer has been charged with murder.
In Texas? Was the district attorney getting overexcited again?
A Black Lives Matter protest in the streets of downtown Austin on July 25 turned violent when Garrett Foster, who was armed with an AK-47, was killed amid an armed standoff with a Sgt. Daniel Perry, who shot and killed him while being confronted by protesters.

Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury on the charges of murder, aggravated assault and deadly conduct on Thursday, according to the New York Post.
Travis County, Austin, Grand Jury will only see what the DA presents, NOT what other facts may prove different. The issue here is the DA
Perry was stationed at Fort Hood at that time, and was working for a ride-sharing company. On that day, he had just dropped off a customer before turning down a street blocked by a crowd of protestors.

The Texas Tribune reports that Perry stopped his car, honked, then proceeded to drive his car into the crowd.

The crowd then surrounded Perry's vehicle, which is when Foster and Perry came face to face. Foster, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, was carrying an Ak-47 rifle, which is legal under Texas open carry laws.

The Black Lives Matter street-level instigator, 28-year-old Foster, expressed his violent intent earlier that night in an interview while openly carrying his AK-47.

"If I used it against the cops, I'm dead," Foster stated. However, it wasn't the police who shot him but an armed civilian who Foster said he didn't think would fight back. "I think all the people that hate us and wanna say shit to us are too big of pu**ies to stop and actually do anything about it," he said, ironically.

The incident, which has conflicting reports of how it unfolded, resulted in Foster dying of multiple gunshot wounds from Perry shooting Foster with a handgun before fleeing, the Tribune reports. Cops said Perry was legally armed as well.
Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  WTF?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/03/2021 3:46 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ ditto
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 07/03/2021 4:01 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^Simple, IMO, USA moving toward an invariant principle that killing of a Black by a White is never justified.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2021 4:15 Comments || Top||

#4  in the streets of downtown Austin
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2021 6:39 Comments || Top||

#5  The governor of Texas isn't the governor of Minnesota when it comes to pardon actions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2021 8:12 Comments || Top||

#6 
So a Black Socialist RADICAL brings loaded AKM CCP/USSR designed likely even made firearm to a "Peaceful" Protest and get capped.

The DA seeking Re-election sees possible long term issues and brings it to G-Jury to delay Riots, looting and more private property damages.

G-Jury likely to NO BILL.
Citizenry pre-prepared for Riots, looting and more private property damages. Results Dead Rioters, looter and little private property damages.

If it reaches the courts, likely no conviction. The Citizenry again pre-prepared for Riots, looting and more private property damages. Results Dead Rioters, looter and little private property damages

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/03/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#7  NN2N1 - we're talking Austin/Travis County here, not the Texas most people think about. Grand Jury very well may indict, and the population likely would not use force to defend against rioters if it did not. Austin used to be a hotter weather equivalent of Portland, but now Portland has caught up in temperature.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/03/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#8  we're talking Austin/Travis County here, not the Texas most people think about

Indeed. Austin is sometimes referred to as "Berkeley on the Colorado".
Posted by: SteveS || 07/03/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#9  The crowd then surrounded Perry's vehicle


it was at this point that all the soldier's subsequent actions became legally self defense

we shall see what happens with this case. will the rule of law or mob rule win the day?
Posted by: Retard Strength || 07/03/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#10  The DA is antifa.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/03/2021 20:43 Comments || Top||

#11  NN2N1, And it was a white boy that got shot. His gf was black, not him.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/03/2021 23:28 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Violence against Hindus: How Bengal is becoming a Kashmir Valley of the 1990s
[OneIndia] The Moslem dominated insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
in 1989 eventually fired the Kashmiri Hindus out of the Kashmir Valley. The peak phase of the exodus was in the 1990s when the Hindus were targeted by terrorist groups.

A petition in the Supreme Court compared the exodus of Hindus in West Bengal to that of the one in Kashmir. As a result of the violence, loot, killing and terror, enmasse Hindus have been forced to leave their native place and to migrate to Assam, like Hindus who were forced to do the same thing in the year 1990 in Kashmir, the PIL filed by Ranjana Agnihotri, Hindu Front for Justice and Jitendra Singh said. The court has agreed to examine the matter and issued notices to the Centre, Bengal government and Election Commission of India.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Pak Armed Forces, ISI fully aware of enemies nefarious designs
[NATION.PK] ISI Chief Lt General Faiz Hameed briefs members on Afghanistan and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
amid ’ever evolving geo-political, strategic environment’ | Hopes Afghanistan’s soil will not be used against Pakistain | COAS Gen Bajwa, DG ISPR Maj-Gen Babar Iftikhar, Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto also attend briefing

ISLAMABAD - A special in-camera session of Parliamentary Defence Committee on National Security was held and presided by Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaisar here on Thursday. Besides members of the committee, selected parliamentarian of all major political parties were also invited for the subject briefing.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Why has the IAF become a duck?
[NATION.PK] With news of two drones hitting a heavily guarded air base in Jammu, India media went into overdrive to blame Pakistain, and it was not unexpected. After all, the pride of Indian Military, the Indian Air Force(IAF), which gobbles billions of dollars every year is a big burden on the exchequer. IAF consumes almost 23 percent of the 70 billion dollars allocated for defence. In 2020 and 2021, IAF surpassed the Army and Navy in biting the allocation for so-called modernisation budget.
Perhaps because - unlike the other IAF (Israeli) - the enemy the Indians face doesn't pose an existential threat, other than the nukes?
As reported by the Stimson Centre in February this year, analysts recorded an overall defence modernisation budget of USD $12.48 billion in 2020, with the IAF provided the highest budget of USD $5.36 billion. India also signed significant strategic defence and security cooperation agreements with major and emerging powers. Moreover, the Indian military heavily overspent and made emergency purchases due to the ongoing confrontation with China. Specifically, the IAF overspent by USD $1.61 billion, the Navy by $1.49 billion, and the Army by $112.62 million.

So far no one has claimed the credit for these drone attacks on IAF; irrespective of the fact that these may be part of the false flag operations, IAF has been badly smacked by Indian media. This may be justified due to the poor track record of IAF during its skirmish with Pakistain Air Force in February 2019 and its inability to warn the Indian politicianship about the Chinese build up in Ladakh last year.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Typical of our parasitic twin.
Posted by: Wren || 07/03/2021 2:46 Comments || Top||

#2  the pride of Indian Military, the Indian Air Force(IAF), which gobbles billions of dollars every year is a big burden on the exchequer


[giggles, beats keyboard with face]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/03/2021 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I don’t understand the headline reference to ducks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2021 6:18 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ They're pakis, dear. Still learning to read and write. He wanted to imply 'sitting ducks'. ☺
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/03/2021 6:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Me neither
Posted by: Groucho || 07/03/2021 6:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Or he must have been gloating about how 'from once mighty eagles that ripped us new ones in three wars, they have become waddling ducks that cannot defend a base against our lowly proxies, hyuk hyuk'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/03/2021 6:28 Comments || Top||

#7  ^You think this was written by adults or teenagers?
Posted by: Wren || 07/03/2021 6:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Methinks it was written by a woman. A disposable, hare-brained, pakistani cow.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/03/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||


PM says Pakistan will stand by China in 'peace and peril'
[NATION.PK] Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
said Thursday that Pakistain’s commitment to further strengthen relations with China in the spheres of politics, trade and economy.
Belt and Road Boodle™
Interacting with the Chinese media on the occasion of centenary celebrations of Communist Party of China (CPC), he said China-Pakistain Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a project that gives us optimism and hope for future economic development.

He said a high level committee has also been constituted to monitor progress on the CPEC related projects and make sure there is no impediment in their way. Imran Khan said he is also going to Gwadar next week to oversee the pace of corridor related projects. He said his visit to China is also in the offing which will focus on further strengthening the bilateral relationship.

Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  LMAO sure. Inshallah.
Posted by: Wren || 07/03/2021 2:07 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
OPEC to boost oil output as economies recover, prices rise
More profits means money for supporting pet jihadi groups. Congratulations, President Biden.
[Rudaw] The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing countries plan to restore 2.1 million barrels per day of crude production, balancing fears that COVID-19 outbreaks in some countries will sap demand against surging energy needs in recovering economies.

Energy ministers made the decision during an online meeting Tuesday.

Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said recent market developments proved the agreement to gradually increase production, made in April and reconfirmed Tuesday, was "the right decision." There are still "clouds on the horizon" regarding the recovery and demand for energy, he said.

The cartel decided to stay the course decided at earlier meetings to raise production by 2.1 million barrels per day from May to July. The group plans to add back 350,000 barrels per day in June and 440,000 barrels per day in July. Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
is also gradually adding back 1 million barrels in voluntary cuts it made above and beyond its group commitment.

The combined OPEC Plus grouping of members led by Saudi Arabia and non-members, chief among them Russia, is facing concerns renewed COVID-19 outbreaks in countries such as India, a major oil consumer, will hurt global demand and weigh on prices. Oil producing countries made drastic cuts to support prices during the worst of the pandemic slowdown in 2020 and must now judge how much additional oil the market needs as producers slowly add more production.

But prices have recovered, closing at multi-year highs on Tuesday, and the recoveries in the US, Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and Asia are expected to drive energy demand higher in the second half of the year as people travel more and use more fuel. The U.S. driving season began over Memorial Day weekend and increasing numbers of Americans have been vaccinated, leaving people feeling freer to travel and take longer trips by car.

On Tuesday the price of benchmark U.S. crude rose 2% to $67.72 per barrel after jumping nearly 4%. Brent crude, the European standard, traded 2.7% higher at $71.17 but closed at $70.25 per barrel. The prices were the highest in two years for Brent crude and in nearly three years for U.S. crude.

On Wednesday, oil prices rose modestly, with benchmark U.S. crude up 16 cents to $67.88 per barrel. Brent crude picked up 18 cents to $70.43 per barrel.

An additional factor complicating market estimates is the possible return to the market of more Iranian oil, depending on the outcome of talks over Iran’s nuclear program. Paul Sheldon, chief geopolitical risk analyst at S&P Global Platts, said he expects a framework nuclear deal will be reached before Iran’s June 18 election, allowing Iranian supply to rise by 1.05 million barrels per day between May levels and December.

Bin Salman said that the prospect of more Iranian oil coming to market was not discussed at the brief meeting, which he said lasted less than half an hour.

Oil prices have risen more than 30% since the start of the year. That has meant higher costs for motorists in the U.S., where crude makes up about half the price of a gallon of gasoline. Holiday travelers paid the highest gas prices since 2014 at a national average of $3.03 per gallon, $1.12 more than last year. Prices in the western states were even higher; Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,ns paid $4.20 per gallon.
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#1  Biden is just the puppet of the Anti-American Junta but a useful focal point.
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#2  Biden is just the puppet of the Anti-American Junta but a useful focal point.

At some point, Biden will be replaced by the Disney Animatronic Biden and no one will notice the difference.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/03/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||


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Syria Kurds seek help in rehabilitating IS-linked minors
[AlAhram] Kurdish authorities hold thousands of suspected jihadist fighters in their jails, as well as tens of thousands of their relatives in camps for the displaced.

Syria's Kurds Friday urged international help to set up rehabilitation centres for minors linked to 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....
group, after charges they were holding "hundreds of children" in adult prisons.
Acknowledging that some jihadist-linked minors were being held in adult prisons, separate to the many more in camps, senior Kurdish foreign affairs official Abdelkarim Omar told AFP around 30 teenagers have lately been transferred out of one overcrowded camp.

He spoke just days after the International Committee of the Red Thingy said "hundreds of children -- mostly boys, some as young as 12 -- are detained in adult prisons" in northeast Syria.

Kurdish authorities hold thousands of suspected jihadist fighters in their jails, as well as tens of thousands of their relatives in camps for the displaced, after spearheading a US-backed battle against IS that formally ended in victory in early 2019.

Omar told AFP an unspecified number of IS-linked minors who are held in jails are kept in separate quarters to the adults.

He said the region desperately needed more rehabilitation centres for teenagers, on top of a single one already housing some 120 near the city of Qamishli.

"We think children do not belong in either camps or prisons," he told AFP.

As a start, he said, "between 30 to 35 children aged 12 and older have been taken out of the al-Hol camp."

The Kurds were preparing a new rehabilitation centre in the city of Hasakeh, which "will be ready in the coming days", Omar added.

Since Kurdish-led fighters expelled IS from the last scrap of their territorial "caliphate" in March 2019, al-Hol has swelled to a tent city of some 62,000 people -- civilians but also alleged IS relatives.

The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
says it has documented "radicalisation" in the camp, where the number of guards is limited and around 10,000 foreign IS-linked women and kiddies lived in a separate annex.

Fabrizio Carboni, head of ICRC's Middle East and Near East operations, on Wednesday described a "pervasive sense of hopelessness" in al-Hol.

Boys lived "in a state of constant fear", as "once they reach a certain age, many are separated from their families and transferred to adult places of detention," he said in a statement.

He called for children in detention to be "either reunited with their families in camps, repatriated alongside them or have alternative care arrangements made for them".

Omar, the Kurdish official, urged the international community to help it "set up 15 or 16 centres to bring the children out of the jails, until a solution is found".

Keeping them in their current "environment will only lead to the emergence of a new generation of terrorists," he warned.
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Iran plans to prevent IAEA inspectors from reviewing video footage of some nuclear sites until there is an agreement to salvage the Iran nuclear deal
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Russian Syrian mission: White helmets preparing chemical attacks in Idlib
Direct Translation of the article via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Militants of the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham group
...formerly known as Al Nusra, and before that the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda in Iraq...
(an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), together with White Helmets, are preparing provocations with poisonous substances in the Syrian province of Idlib, the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS) in Syria said on July 2 Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit.

According to the Russian military, at the moment about 10 barrels of chemicals have been delivered there.

According to information received from local residents, the terrorists, together with members of the infamous White Helmets group, brought 10 barrels of chemical substances by truck to the area of ​​the Harim settlement in the Syrian province of Idlib.

"According to available information, the terrorists intend to stage a“ chemical attack ”in the southern part of the Jebel Ez-Zawiye ridge for the subsequent accusation of the Syrian government forces of using poisonous substances against civilians," said Admiral Kulit.

As reported by IA REGNUM , Syrian illegal armed groups regularly try to stage chemical attacks in order to accuse the Syrian government and the Russian military of using poisonous substances against civilians.
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#1  We sorta figured this out after watching a video of Syrian "volunteers" cleaning "nerve-gas-bomb" impact site with scarfs tied around their faces.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2021 4:22 Comments || Top||



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