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Cops will still confiscate phones, erase videos etc. And then departments will sign conscent decrees to train cops on the public's right to record events occurring in public spaces. Rinse, repeat.
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Let ‘em treat their patients with the Blackhawks they’re so proud of capturing.
[IsraelTimes] The World Health Organization warns that it has enough medical supplies to last it "one week," following the blistering Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul 10 days ago.
"WHO now only has enough supplies in-country to last for one week," says Ahmed al-Mandhari, the head of WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean region — stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan.
"Yesterday, 70 percent of these supplies were released to health facilities," he adds.
Mandhari says that 500 metric tons of medicines and supplies stored in Dubai were unable to be delivered due to the chaotic evacuation efforts at Kabul airport, which does not have the capacity to receive commercial flights.
"Countries sending in empty planes to pick up evacuees do not feel they are able to help," Mandhari says.
Ummm — guys? This is the Taliban you’re talking about, not Westerners who think other cultures and faiths should be respected.
[ToloNews] The Shia Ulema Council at a presser on Tuesday urged the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to ensure that they will treat all faiths and ethnicities with equality and justice.
They said the next government should ensure the participation of all religions and ethnicities.
The holy mans called on the Taliban to ensure the safety and security of women and minorities.
"The Shia people never support violence and war, they all support peace," said Ayatollah Salehi, a Shia holy man.
The holy mans also issued an 18 point declaration.
"The declaration clarifies the working framework of the Afghanistan Shia Ulema Council," said Sayed Hussain Alimi Balkhi, a holy man.
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All is coming together as planned. Director Burns is seen giving a knowing smile and polite golf clap somewhere behind the scenes. The territorial transition is nearly complete.
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/\ Uhuhuh how about exterminating Taliban? They are nothing but biological hazards.
Exterminate the TB? Exterminate our newest Military Industrial Complex (MIC) client and tribal parters? They deserve those M4's. You on the other hand, must have your M4 taken away !
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08/25/2021 6:00 Comments ||
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The Taliban are being coached by the Chinese and by the State Department in green virtue signaling.
China will buy the Lithium and other rare earth minerals used in the manufacture of batteries and other green technologies from Afghanistan so the Taliban can have a cash flow of billions of dollars a month in order to finance its global war of terrorism.
China will process the mineral ores to produce the pure rare earth elements.
China will use these rare earth elements in the manufacture of batteries and other green technologies in order to sell to the rest of the world and become the largest economy in the world.
The Democrats will pass the three trillion dollar infrastructure bill so the US can invest billions of dollars in green batteries and other green technologies so the US can be clean and non-polluting and help fight global warming.
Of course most of the billions of dollars of green infrastructure will be purchased from the Chinese because the Taliban will not sell their rare earth minerals to the US.
Besides the US cannot manufacture green technologies here in the US because the elements used in the manufacture of green technologies like batteries are toxic and are not environmentally friendly and environmental regulation and mitigation required in the US is prohibitively expensive.
So all green manufacturing and green recycling has been sent overseas to pollute and to change the micro-climates of other countries and not our own.
NIMBY and out of site, out of mind.
So most of the 3 trillion dollar green infrastructure bill investment will end up going overseas to our arch enemies China and the Taliban.
After all climate change is the real global threat, much more than the global threat of terrorism from the Taliban.
And the thousands of American hostages being left behind in Afghanistan will be in the good green hands of the Taliban.
Meanwhile under cover of the Kabul hostage crisis Nancy Pelosi is hard at work getting that 3 trillion dollar infrastructure bill passed without a single Republican vote so that the "green cycle of violence" can really begin when the real money starts to flow in the trillions.
[AlAhram] Plain concrete gravestones painted with a number and the word ``Afghan'' are all that mark the final resting places of dozens of unidentified migrants colonists who died trying to enter The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... through the rugged mountainous border with Iran.
Hundreds of people escaping conflict or poverty, mostly from Afghanistan but also from other countries in the region, have died over the years risking the perilous crossing. Some succumbed after exposure to extreme weather conditions, others died in accidents as their smugglers tried to evade authorities in trucks and boats crammed with people.
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[FoxNews] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that he has authorized state National Guard members to arrest people who illegally cross the Texas-Mexico border.
Along with performing a law enforcement function, Abbott said Guard members will also help with the early stages of constructing border barriers and a border wall.
"The Texas National Guard is playing an unprecedented role to secure the border because of the unprecedented refusal of the federal government to fulfill its obligations under federal law," the governor said in a statement. The National Guard typically doesn't have immigration law enforcement capabilities, according to Border Report.
Last month, Abbott ordered Guard members to assist the Department of Public Safety (DPS) in arresting illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border who break state laws.
"To respond to this disaster and secure the rule of law at our Southern border, more manpower is needed," Abbott wrote in a letter sent to Major Gen. Tracy R. Norris of the Texas Military Department. "DPS needs help in arresting those who are violating state law. … I hereby order that the Texas National Guard assist DPS in enforcing Texas law by arresting lawbreakers at the border."
That July order expanded on Abbott's June disaster declaration, which directed the DPS to enforce all federal and state criminal laws, including those on criminal trespassing, smuggling and human trafficking. The declaration had allowed the use of all available state resources to assist state and local law enforcement in protecting Texans from "criminal activity and property damage."
Nearly 213,000 migrants were encountered at the southern border in July, a 13% increase over the already massive 188,000 migrant encounters in June, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In July 2020, there were just 40,929 encounters.
In March, Abbott launched Operation Lone Star to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas. Since then, more than 4,600 arrests have been made by the DPS for charges including criminal mischief and criminal trespass.
The operation has also led to the confiscation of more than 700 pounds of cocaine, 127 pounds of deadly fentanyl, and at least 270 firearms.
Twitter report with Newsweek story. Go to title for story.
President Joe Biden's administration is prepared to pardon an influential Afghan tribal leader, who has been sitting in a U.S. federal prison for 16 years, in exchange for the last American hostage abducted last year in Afghanistan.
But Washington is insisting that the Taliban first provide proof of life for the U.S. hostage, a U.S. government official told Newsweek.
Bashir Noorzai, a top figure in the Pashtun tribe that shares his surname, the same tribe to which elusive Taliban Supreme Commander Hibatullah Akhundzada belongs, was arrested in New York City on drug trafficking charges in April 2005 during a trip in which he sought to advance diplomacy as the U.S.-led war in his home country grew even more violent. Today, he's serving a life sentence at a federal prison in New Hampshire.
Mark Frerichs is a U.S. contractor who was abducted in late January 2020 by elements believed to be tied to the Haqqani network, a Taliban-aligned militia operating across the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Newsweek was the first to report on his kidnapping days later, and has made contact with his family and former U.S. officials regarding his case, as well as the prospect of an exchange of Noorzai for Frerichs.
#4
Fighting the last war has worked out so well for the Pentagon...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
08/25/2021 9:06 Comments ||
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The US military's biggest problem in the field will not be suppressing the crude ordnance Iron Dome handles so well. We will be up against state of the art artillery and hypersonics either launched from conventional ground based missiles or aircraft. You will stop the hypersonics only by getting them in boost phase or identifying and eliminating the airborne launchers. Iron dome can't do either.
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08/25/2021 9:12 Comments ||
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^And, in any case, Hunter found a better supplier.
#10
The US military is run for purpose of buying gear from the defense supplier cartel. Their philosophy is 'it would nice if it works, but it doesn't have to'. As far as the head office is concerned, it could be used, or buried at sea (if the EPA will allow), but there's a buy budget to spend, and the generals and admirals have a future consultants position to worry about. It's all about the graft.
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08/25/2021 10:16 Comments ||
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^Are you sayin we might see something exactly like Iron Dome, with identical performance - but bearing a proud American name, and coming from a true blue (all parts are made abroad) American company?
#13
I think all the US weapons run on an RTOS probably based on OS9 (Not the Crapple OS) It's portable and small. you really can't use Windows to run anything on a small cheap chip.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
08/25/2021 10:50 Comments ||
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Most of the "Muh Linsux" crowd would be as lost writing scripts and using command prompts as a Windows user would be. Anyone who thinks they are clever for making jokes about large client operating systems operating things like an SM-6 missile probably should not be allowed to operate a garden hose or drinking straw.
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"Anyone who thinks they are clever for making jokes about large client operating systems operating things like an SM-6 missile probably should not be allowed to operate a garden hose or drinking straw."
But they still vote, MM.
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Stuff like Iron Dome gets built in Israel with US funding because it's a way of having our R & D escape the effects of the bureaucrats who brought us the current fuckup in Afghanistan or who funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The US scientific bureaucracy are basically like those cat sitters who buy your feline vegan cat food when you're out of the country for six months.
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#11, its a long and distinguished history of behavior -
The' 03 Springfield and the Mauser Patents
While it's well known the Model 1903 design infringed certain patents belonging to Paul Mauser it's less well known precisely what the
patents covered.
A little background:
In the spring of 1904 General Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, communicated with Mauser indicating some concerns over three patents related
to the design ofthe charger (stripper clip) for the new U.S. Rifle. Mauser detailed their US agents Von Lengerke and Detmold to look into the
matter. The Mauser patent attorneys in turn requested samples of the chargers and the new rifle which they were provided.
Good News and Bad News!:
Von Lengerke and Detmold and their attorneys having completed their review of the clips and the rifles got back to General Crozier. Of
the three original clip patents they advised only two were considered to have been infringed. On the other hand there were five features of the new
rifles design they were concerned about. To settle the matter Mauser proposed the US pay royalties in the amounts of$1.00 per rifle and $1.00
per thousand chargers.
The parties met and negotiated a settlement whereby royalties would be paid at rates of $.75 per rifle and $.50 per thousand chargers. The
amounts were to be paid at the agreed rates until the sum totaled $200,000. At that point the royalties would cease. The agreement was finalized
___ .and.the first check issued just about one year after General Crozier contacted Mauser.
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John Moses Browning was totally immersed in designing semi-auto pistols and automatic rifles at the time and was not at all involved in the army's crusade to remain in the 19th century forever.
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[Jpost] The IDF has reinforced the Gaza Division ahead of rallies planned for Wednesday by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The reinforcements include two units of special forces, an armored company and snipers, the IDF said Tuesday.
“IDF forces will act vigorously in the face of terrorist attempts at the fence,” it said.
The decision to reinforce the Gaza Division came following a situational assessment led by OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Eliezer Toledano. During the meeting, officers discussed the location of various forces, procedures for opening fire and approved operational plans.
The meeting took place ahead of a rally the Palestinians have called “The Sword of Jerusalem shall not be sheathed,” a reference to Hamas’s name for the fighting that took place in May.
The IDF is preparing for a variety of scenarios, including violent riots along the perimeter fence, the launching of incendiary balloons and rocket fire toward Israeli communities.
“The IDF will respond strongly to terrorist attempts and hold the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for everything that is happening in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF said.
On Saturday, during a violent riot along the Gaza perimeter fence, Border Police officer Bar-el Shmueli was shot in the head by a Hamas terrorist who approached his position and shot Shmueli with a handgun.
Shmueli underwent several operations at Soroka-University Medical Center in Beersheba and was in critical condition, intubated and sedated.
Following criticism that no senior IDF officer came to the hospital, Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi and Toledano visited his bedside on Tuesday.
More than 41 Palestinians, including 10 children, were injured during the demonstrations, the Gaza Strip’s Health Ministry reported. Among them were a 13-year-old boy who was hit in the head east of Gaza City, someone who was hit in the neck with a rubber bullet, a woman and a journalist, it said.
Gaza is engaged in an open military confrontation with Israel with the aim of putting pressure to end the 11-year blockade on the coastal enclave, Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Daoud Shehab said Tuesday.
“The Palestinian resistance looks at what is happening today in Jerusalem and the attacks in the West Bank, and it always has its hand on the trigger,” he was quoted as saying by the Palestinian Ma’an news agency.
“The resistance is following all of this and is ready and ready in case the occupation tries to change the rules of engagement,” Shehab said, adding that groups in the Gaza Strip are “ready to respond to any aggression.”
Israeli defense officials believe Hamas is ready for another round of fighting. It has said it is satisfied with the outcome of Operation Guardian of the Walls, but Hamas’s rocket arsenal was not hit as hard as it would have liked.
[Jpost] The European Union has delayed by ten months this year’s funding to the Palestinian Authority.
The European Union has delayed by ten months this year’s funding to the Palestinian Authority in a move that has deepened the PA’s financial crisis and raised doubts about the payment of August’s civil servant wages.
“The crisis is very serious, and at this stage we don’t know if we will be able to pay this month’s salaries,” a Palestinian official cautiously told The Jerusalem Post.
The European Union has been the largest single donor to the PA, providing 150 million euros for social allowances, including salaries for employees such as teachers and health care workers.
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This year, for the first time the EU has not provided its traditional 150 million euros for those salaries in a timely fashion, referencing technical reasons.
The EU might provide funds by October, leaving the PA scraping the barrel in an effort to fund August wages.
The payment of civil servant salaries for June and July were delayed by several days due to the crisis, the official pointed out.
“The banks are saying that they can no longer give us loans because they have reached the maximum of what they are allowed to give,” the official said.
The current crisis is directly linked to the sharp decline in foreign aid, he explained.
An EU spokesperson said that “the payments of social allowances to vulnerable Palestinian families and salaries to civil servants are the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority, not the European Union.”
“The PA has been perfectly aware for months that EU funding in 2021 would be delayed for technical reasons,” the spokesperson said.
“As per our communication with the PA, the delay in our annual support for Palestinians is expected to last until October 2021. The PA – like any responsible public authority – must plan on the basis of the revenue streams to which it has access, including when it knows donor generosity may be delayed,” the spokesperson explained.
The Palestinian official noted that there were other factors at work. There was a significant drop in tax collection, increased debts to the banks and the economic crisis resulting from the spread of COVID-19 and its Delta variant.
The crisis is also caused by Israel’s deduction of hundreds of millions of shekels from the amount paid by the PA to families of terrorists imprisoned or killed by Israel.
Another PA official said that the Ramallah-based government was hoping to receive more than $200 million in foreign aid during the first six months of this year. In reality, however, the PA received less than $35m. during the period, further aggravating the financial crisis.
We have made urgent appeals to the donors to fulfill their obligations towards the Palestinian people,” the official told The Jerusalem Post. “The Arab countries, as you know, have not given us one dollar in the past year. We are now relying on the Americans and Europeans.”
[BenarNews] Hundreds of Afghan refugees in Indonesia — most of them from the Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... ethnic minority — condemned the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s forcible return to power in their homeland as they rallied in Jakarta on Tuesday to demand resettlement to a third country.
Demonstrators gathered outside the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... refugee agency (UNHCR) office here and held up placards that read "Resettle Afghan refugees from Indonesia," and "SOS Afghanistan is not safe."
The ethnic Hazaras, who are Shia Moslems, are persecuted in Sunni-majority Afghanistan. Many of these refugees have been sheltering in Indonesia for years as they wait to be resettled in a third country, such as Australia.
Indonesia is not a party to the U.N.’s 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, and prohibits refugees from obtaining jobs and attending formal schools while staying in the Southeast Asian country.
One refugee, Hakmat Ziraki, said he was grateful to the Indonesian people and government for hosting the thousands of them, but they needed to move on.
"We came here to ask ... to know about our future, we are tired of waiting in limbo. We have waited about eight to ten years," Ziraki told the Rooters news agency in a video clip.
"We want the world to hear our voices and we are really thankful to Indonesian people, to the Indonesian government for understanding us. We are really sorry, we are really, really, sorry to have broken this COVID-19 lockdown."
The demonstration, which started out peacefully, became chaotic as security forces began to disperse the protesters for violating pandemic controls. Some demonstrators were seen being arrested by the police for resisting.
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Indonesia is not a party to the U.N.’s 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, and prohibits refugees from obtaining jobs and attending formal schools while staying in the Southeast Asian country.
1) Shocking footage obtained by hackers who hacked into the notorious Evil Prison in Iran’s surveillance system. It shows how prisoners are violently beaten and tortured by prison officials. Islamic Republics officials never allow UN Special Rapporteur to visit Iranian prison. pic.twitter.com/05eOx6QYJj
[RUDAW.NET] The head of Iran’s prison authority on Tuesday apologized for “unacceptable” behavior after leaked video showed abuses in one of the country’s notorious prisons.
Mohammad Mahdi Hajmohammadi said they are “accepting responsibility for these unacceptable behaviors and committing to trying not to repeat such tragic events and dealing seriously with wrongdoers.”
The video leaked to the Associated Press shows prisoners and guards in Tehran’s Evin prison, including a man smashing a bathroom mirror to try to cut his arm, guards hitting prisoners, and guards fighting among themselves.
“I apologize to God Almighty, our dear leader, the noble nation and the honorable prison guards, whose efforts, of course, will not be ignored under the influence of these mistakes,” said Hajmohammadi.
Iran’s deputy chief justice told reporters on Tuesday that the issue is under investigation. “The judiciary is determined to deal severely with those who disrupt the security of society and play with the lives of the people and disrupt the well-being of the people,” Iranian state media quoted Mohammad Mossadegh Kahnemoui as saying.
Human rights monitors frequently raise concerns about poor conditions, abuse of prisoners, and use of torture in Iran’s penal system, especially in wards of Evin prison that are controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“Prison conditions were harsh and life threatening due to food shortages, gross overcrowding, physical abuse, and inadequate sanitary conditions and medical care,” the US State Department said in its annual human rights report.
Evin prison facility is the target of both US and EU sanctions for human rights abuses. After Iran cracked down on protesters following the disputed 2009 re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, many of the arrested protesters ended up in Evin.
International monitors are concerned that human rights could further erode in Iran under new President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline judge with a record of human rights abuses who played a role in a 1988 prison massacre. Raisi has defended his record. “All that I have done through my years of service has always been towards defending human rights,” he said after the June election.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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/\ Uhuhuh how about exterminating Taliban? They are nothing but biological hazards.
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