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Ukrainian forces have reached the outskirts of Zarichne.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Venezuelan migrant recorded a video for his father in Texas and shouted 'we made it dad' before he drowned in the Rio Grande with seven others
  • Non-profit immigration law firm 1800migrante.com obtained a video that shows the final moments of two Venezuelan migrants before drowning September 2

  • Footage released Thursday shows Walter González Piña and his friend Exleiker González crossing the river with another man

  • González Piña recorded a video for his father in Texas, shouting 'we made it dad'

  • The men were about to reach the shore near Eagle Pass, Texas, when González Piña and Exleiker González were swept downstream

  • They were among eight migrants who drowned September 2 and were found dead the next day

  • Almost 800 migrants have died while crossing the border in fiscal year 2022
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2022 08:43 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Remember, kids. Be sure to wait 30 minutes after swimming before posting on tic tok.
Posted by: Lowspark || 09/30/2022 11:29 Comments || Top||

#2  They knew the chances and took the risks, which is not even counting the illegality of their actions. Not much else to say.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/30/2022 13:34 Comments || Top||

#3  As I have said before, this demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the idea of live streaming.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/30/2022 23:16 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
More than 10,000 Afghan refugees return home in past week
[Ariana News] The Ministry of Repatriation and Refugees (MoRR) says in the past week, more than 10,000 Afghan migrants colonists returned to the country from neighboring countries.
And it might even be true... or at least that some people straggled up to the border
Abdul Mutalib Haqqani, front man for the MoRR, said Thursday that most of the returnees were those who traveled illegally to neighboring countries.

"This ministry has good plans for the returnees who do not have shelter," said Mutalib.

At the same time, the ministry asked the neighboring countries to treat Afghan immigrants colonists appropriately and according to international laws.

In the past few months, some countries have reportedly treated Afghan immigrants colonists inappropriately and forcibly deported them to Afghanistan.

MoRR meanwhile stated that more than 90,000 people have returned to the country since the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan came to power in August last year.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2022 00:31 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Education Program for Afghan Girls Broadcast on Radio
[ToloNews] An education program is being broadcast by some radio stations to provide lessons to girls above grade six.

The students who are participating in these programs said that they will reach out for education in any possible way.

The radio stations that are broadcasting these programs said they are trying to increase education opportunities for the female students.

Bigam radio station is one participant in the program, and broadcasts lessons for around six hours every day.

"We aimed to establish a substitute for school lessons that are closed for girls currently so the girls can take advantage of it and can use this opportunity," said Saba Chaman, head of the radio station.

Arman radio stations broadcast school lessons for grades 7-12 for around one hour per day.

"We have tried to establish a program and an environment for these students who are physically away from education," said a teacher at Arman radio station.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2022 00:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Czechia Renews Border Checks as new Migrant Wave Grows
[Breitbart] Czech police fired warning shots in the air before detaining the driver of a van carrying 15 migrants Thursday morning after the Czech Republic and Austria renewed checks at the border with Slovakia amid a new wave of migration.

Czech police reported traffic delays, especially for trucks, after the measure became effective on Thursday at 27 border crossings, while the Austrian authorities enforced it at 11 crossings.

The checks will be initially in place for 10 days.

Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia all belong to the European Union´s visa-free Schengen zone, where residents of member nations typically can cross borders without presenting passports or visas. Schengen countries have adopted temporary border controls in the past for various reasons, including to curb illegal migration and to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

In the first eight hours of the checks, the Czech police said some 120 illegal migrants, including the 15 in the van, were detained on Czech territory, together with nine human smugglers.

“The goal isn´t to complicate the lives of the Czech and Slovak citizens,” Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said after midnight at a border crossing. “The goal is only to make it clear to the groups of smugglers, who are the real criminals … that they have a barrier at the border.”

He spoke after Slovakia´s Prime Minister Eduard Heger criticized the move of its neighbor. Until 1992, they were one country, Czechoslovakia.

Rakusan said Czech officials will negotiate further steps with the authorities from other European countries. He said the Czech Republic, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency “will do the maximum to find a Europe-wide solution.”

Slovakia wants to help enforce the outer Schengen border between Hungary and Serbia to curb the flow of migrants. Interior Minister Roman Mikulec said if the talks with neighboring countries don´t result in a solution, his country will also launch border checks.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, the Czech Republic accepted some 430,000 Ukrainian refugees but Rakusan said the latest measure is dealing with illegal migration.

The Interior Ministry said the checks were necessary after authorities detained almost 12,000 migrants on Czech territory this year, most of them from Syria. That is more than the 8,500 seen during the previous massive migration wave in Europe in 2015, when the Czech Republic was not on the main route. Some 125 human smugglers have been arrested this year, a significant increase compared with the previous years.

The ministry said that the migrants have been using the Czech Republic as a transit country on their way mostly from Turkey to the West and don´t apply for asylum in the country.

Rakusan said that after his talks with German officials, “there´s, of course a threat” that neighboring Germany, a key trade partner for his country, will also start checks on the border with the Czech Republic.

“We do all we can to prevent that,” he said.

The Czech Republic, together with Hungary and Poland, refused to comply with a refugee quota program launched by the EU after well over a million migrants entered the bloc in 2015, most fleeing war in Syria and Iraq.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2022 09:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  no border = no country
Posted by: irish rage boy || 09/30/2022 16:16 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
A day before the ban Pakistani officials tweeted in support of PFI
[OneIndia] Pakistain's Canadian Embassy had replied to a tweet of the Popular Front of India prior to the ban that was imposed on Wednesday. The now deleted screenshot of the reply to a tweet has gone viral on the social media.

Reports said that the verified handle of the Pakistain Consulate General Vancouver replied to a tweet of the banned PFI and tagged the UN Human Rights, Pakistain foreign office. It appeared to be a possible attempt to amplify the PFI's tweet.

The PFI before the ban had called for support during the second mega crackdown by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).Massive arrests are going on in the BJP-ruled states in the name of preventive custody. This is nothing but prevention of the right to democratic protests against the Central government's witch-hunt targeting PFI is quite natural and expected under this autocratic system, the PFI had tweeted.

The viral screenshot shows the Twitter handle of the Pakistain Consulate General Vancouver tagging international handles in its reply.
Images of the tweets can be seen at the link.
The decision to ban the outfit was taken after two back-to-back mega nation wide raids on the outfit. The government took the decision to ban the outfit for five years after it was found that it was indulging in alleged terror funding.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2022 02:17 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Baghdad summons Iranian ambassador to Iraq and hands him a protest note over Iranian strikes on KRI
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I image the 'protest note' was strongly worded.
Posted by: mossomo || 09/30/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF reopens work permits to Palestinians from hometown of gunmen in deadly attack
[IsraelTimes] Israel is unfreezing entry permits to Israel for residents of Kafr Dan, the hometown of two Paleostinian button men who killed an officer earlier this month, on the West Bank security barrier.

In a statement, the military’s liaison to the Paleostinians says the decision, which comes two weeks after the deadly shooting, was made by Defense Minister Benny Gantz during a recent assessment.

Ahmed Abed and Abdul Rahman Abed, from the village near Jenin, were killed in the shootout with Israeli troops who sought to arrest them on September 14.

Maj. Bar Falah, 30, the deputy commander of the elite Nahal reconnaissance unit, was killed when the button men opened fire.

Dozens of work permits belonging to the immediate family of the two button men are still frozen, COGAT says.

In the past year, over 2,500 work permits belonging to family members of Paleostinian bully boyz have been revoked, the statement adds.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2022 03:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


‘You little boy’: Abbas says he scolded Blinken for not pressuring Israel
Either at your feet or at your throat — and the Biden team chose throat, Part MLXVII.
[IsraelTimes] In recording of meeting with Paleostinian Americans on UN sidelines, PA leader urges group to push for statehood, claims he met with ’Zionist lobby’ despite Obama warning against it.

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
told a group of Paleostinian Americans last week that he scolded US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for failing to pressure Israel to make peace.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2022 02:16 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Maybe they're both into that sorta thing. This cabinet... who knows.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/30/2022 4:44 Comments || Top||

#2  It is always interesting to see what our "friends" say amongst themselves.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/30/2022 12:38 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Says Terrorism in Afghanistan Pose Threat to Global Security
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] While the international community as a whole is concerned about the resurgence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan, Iran has also expressed alarm, warning that terrorism in Afghanistan poses a threat to regional and global security.

The re-emergence of terrorism in Afghanistan, according to Zahra Ershadi, ambassador and deputy permanent representative of Iran to the UN, poses a threat to both regional and international security.

The Iranian official placed a strong emphasis on fighting terrorism and stated during the UN Security Council meeting that the Taliban must uphold its commitment to this cause.

She also highlighted that the Taliban should ensure the security of the diplomatic places in Afghanistan, emphasizing that Afghanistan should not once again become a sanctuary for international terrorist groups.

The establishment of an inclusive administration in Afghanistan, according to Ershadi, is a major need, and she called on the world leaders to honor their pledges in this way.

Previously, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the UN General Assembly session explicitly stated that Afghanistan has become a safe haven for terrorists.

At the annual UN 77th session, the foreign minister of Tajikistan also raised alarm over the re-emergence of terrorist organizations in Afghanistan, adding that the nation rapidly attracts terrorists and turns into a haven for them.

The Taliban, however, dismissed these statements and demanded that the Taliban be given a seat in the UN to accurately represent Afghanistan to the rest of the world.

Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  fortunately the Biden Admin is only able to mega-appease one terror State at a time and they've been sucking up to Iran for about 15 months now
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/30/2022 0:09 Comments || Top||


Lebanon Parliament fails to elect the new head of state
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Teachers Of Northern Syria Dissatisfied With Turkish Language Imposition
[NPASYRIA] Ottoman Turkish is not a global language, its class periods reduce those of Arabic and English, and there are no enough qualified teachers to teach it, a teacher from the city of Azaz in northern Aleppo said on Wednesday.

Mehsen al-Jamil, 35, a pseudonym for an Arabic language teacher in Azaz Education Center, affiliated with Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition, wondered about the benefits implied in learning Ottoman Turkish language after it was made one of the basic subjects to be taught at schools in areas under the control of the Ottoman Turkish forces and the affiliated armed factions, known as Syrian National Army (SNA).

Since July 2012, the city of Azaz and its countryside are under the control of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
and its affiliated opposition factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA).

Al-Jamil counted demerits of the Ottoman Turkish language in the region, "It is not a global language, the class periods assigned to Ottoman Turkish reduces those given to English, the first widely spoken language, and eventually reduces the ones assigned to Arabic," al- Jamil told North Press.

In addition, the cadres are unqualified to teach the language, "Education directorates recruit unqualified teachers for Ottoman Turkish the matter creates a gap between teachers and students. At the end of the day, this impinges upon education as a whole," the teacher said.

Since it controlled it, Turkey has always sought to control service, educational and medical arenas within its project to subjugate these areas under the pretext of protecting its southern borders.

Making Ottoman Turkish a compulsory subject at schools, is one of the tools by which Turkey seeks Turkification of the region and to subject it.

Ottoman Turkish was a compulsory and a failed course at schools in areas under the Syrian opposition.

In the academic year 2017-2018, Turkey inserted Ottoman Turkish into curricula in basic and secondary stages as a first step in the demographic change process already taking place and the Turkification policy applied in areas it occupies.

Mamoun Mansour, a pseudonym for a teacher in Azaz said, adding a new curricula resonating English and Arabic, the main teaching language and the mother tongue of the Syrian people, is "improper".

Mamoun added that holds the students much burdens and makes them absentminded as they are obliged to learn [more] languages."

Since Ottoman Turkish is being taught at schools at the time being, Mansour called for assigning Ottoman Turkish teachers to assume the job, "That is better to recruit unqualified teachers that do not understand nor articulate it properly. Then they will teach it improperly that could create more complications."

Bushra al-Saleh, 30, a pseudonym for a Ottoman Turkish language teacher in the Azaz Education Directorate said, "The students’ desire to learn Ottoman Turkish has become an imposition in order to continue their study."

However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
the Ottoman Turkish impinged upon students, according to Bushra, because it has become a failed course as Arabic though it is a third language after Arabic the mother tongue and English, the world’s first spoken one.

Though Ottoman Turkish language has become compulsory, al-Saleh expressed her belief that "It ought to be a cultural language and to be chosen by students instead of imposing it."

Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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Fri 2022-09-30
   Ukrainian forces have reached the outskirts of Zarichne.
Thu 2022-09-29
  Mobilised Russians call hotline to ask how to surrender
Wed 2022-09-28
  Donbass referendums' results revealed, blank ballots seen counted: Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporozhye all choose Russia
Tue 2022-09-27
  Hundreds of Russian vehicles, weapon systems seized during Kharkiv counterattack
Mon 2022-09-26
  Head of Russian Orthodox Church says sacrificing life in war against Ukraine ‘washes away sins.’
Sun 2022-09-25
  Russian authorities detain more than 700 people at protests against partial mobilization
Sat 2022-09-24
  Four Ukraine regions controlled by Russia and pro-Moscow forces have started door to door referendums on Friday on joining Russia
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  31 killed in Iran protests, as people torch cop shoppes
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  Man admits to having murdered a teenager for being a Republican
Wed 2022-09-21
  Putin Orders Partial Military Mobilization Amid Setbacks In Ukraine, Warns West 'It's Not A Bluff
Tue 2022-09-20
  New protests in Iran over woman's death after morality police arrest, 5 protesters said killed
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  ''Kupiansk has surrendered. The enemy is on the left bank of the Oskil:'' pro-Russian military blogger
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  Former Guantanamo guest is injured in Panjshir war
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  400 militants of ISIS deployed to north of Afghanistan - CSTO
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  Tajikistan is trying to seize the territory of Kyrgyzstan


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