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Possibility of civil war in Afghanistan, sez Atta Muhammad Noor
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Why Trump supporters believe Election was stolen! Tucker Carlson reads series of tweets by Darryl Cooper
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Add to Darryl Cooper's list the unmistakable betrayal of tech giants and globalist oligarchs who created the "Made In China" reality.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2021 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Just a few of the facilitators of treason and betrayal.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  CPAC the untold story. Suppressed Trump speech;
Posted by: Dale || 07/11/2021 18:01 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Gov. Cuomo to Treat Gun Violence Issue Like COVID
Governor Cuomo recently announced that he wants to treat gun violence "like a public health issue," adding, "we want to do with gun violence what we just did with COVID."

"Check on your grandparents, there’s a killer on the loose," Woods reacted, referring to how Cuomo’s administration handled the state’s nursing homes during the Wuhan virus pandemic.

Woods was not the only one to slam the New York governor over his claim that he will take on gun violence in the same manner he took on the coronavirus.

"Kill more people, lie about the death toll and then write a book about it?" tweeted Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean, whose husband lost both of his parents — who were living in long-term care facilities — to the coronavirus last March and April.
Several more excellent jabs at Sonny at the link.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/11/2021 17:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
You are Now in the Totalitarian Zone
[American Thinker] Before I get to the bad news, let me start with some good news. Christopher F. Rufo tweets that the revulsion against Critical Race Theory being taught in schools is showing results. Nine states have already banned it: Arizona, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Idaho. As more people realize this effort to divide us into what Scott Adams calls "losers and assholes" I expect we will see more states banning the teaching of this perfidious, noxious, baseless nonsense. On the other hand, there seems no backing off of it in the military, where it can do nothing but weaken our defense capabilities.

Other good news is that courts are rejecting efforts to scrap voter reform. Voter Reform is winning, and it’s what the voters want:

Scrolling down to the 'bad news.'

The bad news this week, is that the media is still feeding us baloney, the surveillance state is growing and we now have -- with judicial acquiescence -- a group of political prisoners in D.C. and a lunatic FBI dragnet against everyone who was anywhere near the Capitol on January 6.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2021 05:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Jan. 6th, 2021 was worse than 911 (need B.S. and sarc. be called?).
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/11/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Let's make it a graceful exit
[NATION.PK] Incumbent Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
met with US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
in Washington on June 25, 2021 in a bid to convince him and the US Administration to reinforce the classic politico-military failure despite guzzling billions of dollars of American taxpayers’ money for a long time without delivering positively on anything. Ashraf Ghani’s last ditch effort was yet again based on faulty assumptions and a request for more economic and military support with US Air Force and drone attacks on the fast winning Afghan Taliban
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Posted by: Fred || 07/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Didi mao!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/11/2021 5:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "General Elphinstone, there's a Navy Osprey waiting for you on the roof."
Posted by: magpie || 07/11/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Meet Jigsaw: Google's Intelligence Agency
[ZeroHedge]
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2021 06:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ouch!!.
Posted by: Dale || 07/11/2021 17:24 Comments || Top||

#2  You ALL Have BEEN HAD for DECADES...

Your LIVES are DEAD in the CYBER WORLD !

Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Spolugum4051 || 07/11/2021 21:41 Comments || Top||


Economy
We're All in This Together - Right?
[Townhall/Bongino] The message was clear, we are all suffering so anyone who complains just needs to suck it up and take the medicine the federal and state governments were prescribing like good little boys and girls.

But were we really "all in it together?" United States Labor Department Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that we weren’t.

While the private sector lost 22 million jobs from February 2020 to April 2020, and state and local government cut about 1.6 million jobs in response to the pandemic, one group of people prospered during the pandemic — the federal government workforce. The federal workforce actually grew slightly during the pandemic never dipping below the 2.63 million employed at the employment high water mark of the Trump administration and indeed our nation’s history in February 2020.

That’s right, the very people who were so earnestly leading the "we’re all in it together" chant, were not in it at all. And quite frankly, were major beneficiaries of the economic shutdown.
Well, dip me in gravy! But wait! There's more!

And of course there is that "famous" federal bureaucrat work ethic. Since the pandemic, a June 10, 2021 memo from the federal OMB and the federal Office of Personnel Management reports that 60% of the federal workforce is telecommuting, while praising the "many thousands of Federal employees with responsibilities that could not be performed remotely have continued to undertake mission-critical duties at their workplaces and on the frontlines of the national response, day-in and day-out through the pandemic."
Heroes, all. Raises and bonuses all around.

Anyone who has been in Washington, D.C. in the past few months knows that the once busy, bustling downtown remains a virtual ghost town as the hundreds of thousands who would normally inhabit the dozens of federal buildings in the city remain at home, presumably working.

State and local governments, which cannot just print money to pay employees, cut payroll positions pretty aggressively, as the federal government just rolled along as if nothing was happening — employees unaffected with the exception that they did not have to go into the office.
So what does it mean?

The hidden effect of this perverse situation was that the very federal government bureaucrats making recommendations about the balancing act between the economic and public health needs of the nation never felt the economic consequences of their decisions. They had no skin in the game.
Science!
Posted by: Bobby || 07/11/2021 17:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Part 2: France as a flanking potential of NATO in the war with Russia
Direct translation of the article via Google Translate. Edited.

This is the second part of the analysis of the French military, via a RAND report release last June, 20231.

By Viktor Orlov

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 07/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Mike Pompeo looking and sounding very Presidential...or Vice Presidential (video)
In case you missed it.
[FOX News Maria Martiloma}
"Time for the Afghan people to do the hard work."
~ Mike Pompeo
I noticed he's lost weight as well...
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2021 11:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Top Ten' issues (typical military commander's approach - 'Commander's Top Ten').

1. Launch of Virgin Galactic.
2. American private innovation.
3. Creation of US Space Force.
4. National Security.
5. Afghan withdrawal and correct policy.
6. Time for Afghans to step up.
7. CCP 100th Anniversary, "single greatest threat."
8. CCP Virus cover-up.
9. CCP DNA harvesting and genocide.
10. Need to confront China.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||

#2  'Commander's Top Ten'

"The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes "
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2021-07-11
  Possibility of civil war in Afghanistan, sez Atta Muhammad Noor
Sat 2021-07-10
  Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan
Fri 2021-07-09
  Heavy Fighting Around Ghazni City Reported
Thu 2021-07-08
  Ahmad Jibril, Syria-based Paleo terror group PFLP-GC #1, dead at 83; #2 Talal Naji new #1
Wed 2021-07-07
  Haitian President Jovenel Moise assassinated in his home
Tue 2021-07-06
  AI drone swarm ‘is used in combat for the first time as Israel deploy them to attack Hamas militants'
Mon 2021-07-05
  Nine Districts Fall to Taliban as Fighting Continues
Sun 2021-07-04
  Happy 4th of July
Sat 2021-07-03
  Standoff Between Heavily Armed Men And Police Shuts Down Part Of I-95 In Wakefield
Fri 2021-07-02
  Rape and domestic abuse suspect shot by police, is seeking tens of thousands of dollars from the city of Kenosha
Thu 2021-07-01
  Government forces target Zayzun power station in Ghab Plain, west of Hama
Wed 2021-06-30
  Donald Rumsfeld dead at 88
Tue 2021-06-29
  Unidentified persons killed two Syrian IDP sisters in al-Hole
Mon 2021-06-28
  Somalia's Puntland region executes 21 al-Shabab fighters
Sun 2021-06-27
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