On 30 Sept., a man tried breaking inside a Portland restaurant occupied by staff. Police responded but backed away to give man "space." He proceeded to use a large rock to smash his way inside, forcing staff to flee & hide in the freezer room. https://t.co/GgPPCUixRepic.twitter.com/G6ojwbzHFw
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Yes. This is what happens when the city council that orders the police around is populated with space cadets. And yes, they are all getting what they voted for, good and hard, now.
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Not quite Jesus overturning the money-changers' tables at the temple, but you gotta start somewhere.
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What does testing have to do with mandates? This is stupid, and counterproductive.
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the testing is just to get their numbers up at this point.
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Flipped a canopy, eh?
No flipped vehicles or burning buildings anywhere.
Pikers.
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Was listening to person's hip hop music channel this morning, talk show hosted by legend in the business. He was talking about an upcoming rap battle between a couple Big Names.
Said he was absolutely going to be there, unless he had to get the vaccine. Co-host was something like come on, not even for this? Nah.
[Aljazeera] Senior military officials in the United States have linked the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August to former President Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban in 2020 promising a complete withdrawal of US troops.
General Frank McKenzie, the head of Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that once the US troop presence was pushed below 2,500 as part of Washington’s bid to complete a total withdrawal by the end of August, the unravelling of the US-backed Afghan government accelerated.
"The signing of the Doha agreement had a really pernicious effect on the government of Afghanistan and on its military — psychological more than anything else, but we set a date — certain for when we were going to leave and when they could expect all assistance to end," McKenzie said.
He was referring to a February 29, 2020, agreement that the Trump administration signed with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, in which the US promised to fully withdraw its troops by May 2021 and the Taliban committed to several conditions, including stopping attacks on US and coalition forces.
The stated objective was to promote a peace negotiation between the Taliban and the Afghan government, but that diplomatic effort had failed to gain traction before former US President Donald Trump was replaced by President Joe Biden in January.
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At the Congressional hearings General Frank McKenzie appeared a petulant, nasty blame-shifter, and the type of officer you'd love to smack in the mouth.
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nope nope nope, y'all and the "president" are to blame. That was how it was under Trump, blamed for everything whether he was in it or not. So eat shit.
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We don't buy it and this fuck up is on you and your ilk.
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Fortunately grounding the Afghan air force by virtue of forcing the maintenance contractors out of the country had nothing to do with it. That sure is a relief! Running away from Bagram in the middle of the night and releasing a herd of blood thirsty goat molesters was a real plus as well.
Root causes? I think the tenor and initiative irrevocably changed after the Defenestration of Prague.
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Sorry General, youhad 2 decades, and a lot of braver and honorable troops, and you allowed the politicians and political officers (especially under Obama) to throw away those troops, and lose the war instead of standing tall and demanding real goals and definite outcomes instead of the forever war you advocated and emplaced.
Fuck you general, don't try to point fingers at others for your cowardice in confronting an incompetent president over his stupid cut and run strategy and the absolute incompetence with which you and your peers handled the departure.
If you had any honor and courage, you'd resign. Cowardly sycophants and political lackey like you lose wars, get soldiers killed needlessly and endanger the nation for your political gains.
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Appropriate graphic except the material being spread on the crops is actually good for something.
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Given the rules of engagement the troops were forced to work under, as well as the tribal nature of Afghanistan, we could never have actually won there. Unless we were willing to do to them what we did to Germany and Japan in WWII.
However, I am sure that under Trump, the ultimate withdrawal would have been done in a much more orderly fashion.
Yes, the Taliban would have been back in power, but we would have been spared the sight of people falling from airplanes; American citizens, green card holders, SIVs, and others being stranded.
The Taliban might have ended up with most of the weapons that we had given to the Afghan army, but every American vehicle left behind would have been disabled or destroyed.
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Really. Because it sounds like about ten years ago the seeds were planted for a woke brass who would get their funding and chance to play Rainbow 6 Generals and toy around with HUMINT theories so long as the war kept going and those getting boodle continue getting paid.
A highly profitable stalemate, and now that brass is rewarded by getting to remold the military in their own form.
"Welcome to the 'Stan trooper....hey, I recognize this name, your dad and I fought in this valley back in '04. How's the old man? Suicide, that's too bad. Hey, I want you to take your platoon down to that village with this bag of cash. You should receive a briefcase, bring that directly to me."
#15
Was General McKenzie saying this at the time of the Doha agreement, when Trump was still the commander-in-chief? Did he offer his resignation at the time?
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#1
And don't forget the Edict of Turda.
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Having troops clean the walls and sweep the floors, instead of evacuating pallets of cash and weapon systems?
State was busy drawing up a lawsuit against Poland and Clippy was making sure everyone showed to the Drag Queen Base Dance.
Good thing we had the Soldier's General hot on the scene....
Honk Honk, guess who's turning the corner in Afghanistan - this guy in his bitchin' Hilux - Choo Choo motherfuckers! Got the boom boom Z.U. twenty three option baby! Whaaaat?! Even got the Dukes of Peshwar Valley flag on the hood, losers. Best part, didn't cost me a thing. Cost those 50 assholes plenty, I'll tell ya. Jay Leno's garage? Jay Leno's garage? The daffuck is Jay Leno?
#21
We were in Afghanistan for about 20 years and spent somewhere between $1-2 trillion. We had around 2300 KIA and another 20,000 injured. Allies had additional casualties. Throughout the 20 years, the question: "Will the Afghans be able to stand up and defend their country?" was never satisfactorily answered. So "No" this clustetfuck cannot be laid on Trump. Damned perfumed generals.
#22
These mofo's are creating a Weimar situation in this country. Retarded and craven elites pissing on our war dead and selling out the country to foreign interests.
Creating hyperinflation.
Destroying our industrial base.
Sicc'ing Antifa (yes, that one) on us and unleashing a new wave of violent black shakedown artists.
Destroying public order.
Creating a culture of toxic garbage, used to hook our young and make them stupid zombies.
All for their foolish globalism.
We know where Weimar leads. This will not end well.
#23
#23 This isn't Weimar it's worse. Weimar was a lot of happenstance and circumstance. Based on the constancy of tactics and direction this would appear to be a plan.
#24
I had heard that the military convinced Trump to leave a force of 2-3000 and Biden decided not to leave any presence. If that is true I expect a Trump comment before long, and I expect there are documentation even if its emails and such.
[KhaamaPress] The acting minister of the higher education of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Abdul Baqi Haqqani said that those who have graduated from high schools during the past twenty years are of no use.
The acting minister is meant by the graduates who have studied during the non-Taliban era when they were fighting the US-backed governments of Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... and Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-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. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... Abdul Baqi Haqqani made the statements in a meeting with the university lecturers in Kabul.
Haqqani said that they must hire teachers who instill the students and incoming generations the values that are of use in the country and Afghanistan can utilize their talents in the future.
Earlier, the acting minister of higher education had said that the Master’s and Ph.D. holders of modern studies are less valuable than those who have studied in madrasas and have religious studies in Afghanistan.
The statement of Haqqani comes as the period-200-2020- is said to be one of the most important and rich eras when it comes to the level of education in Afghanistan.
The writer of this report is one of those who first went to school in 2000, graduated, got his BA degree in journalism, and is now working as a professional Afghan journalist in Kabul.
[ToloNews] Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) officials on Monday said Afghanistan owes $62 million for electricity from neighboring countries.
DABS officials said they have asked UNAMA to provide $90 million to pay the debt, adding that if UNAMA does not provide it they might pressure those people who have not paid their electricity bills, even though many people cannot afford it. What a dilemma!
Safiullah Ahmadzai, acting operational director of DABS, said the company has paid the electricity bill for the last two months to the electricity-exporting countries.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... a document obtained by TOLOnews shows that DABS owes over $51 million to four neighboring countries: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Iran.
DABS owes over $51 million to four neighboring countries: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Iran.
"UNAMA contacted us and told us what they can do for us. We requested they provide $90 million to Afghanistan. We asked UNAMA to pay the electricity bill of those customers who have not paid or cannot pay to the neighboring countries," Ahmadzai said.
According to Ahmadzai, DABS has sent letters to the power-exporting countries asking them to not cut electricity and pledging to pay the debt.
"If the bills are not paid, there is a risk that the neighboring countries will reduce the exported electricity and gradually cut it. DABS should address the problem immediately," said Amanullah Ghalib, former director of DABS.
A number of residents raised concerns over the bad economic situation in the country said the relevant departments should address the challenges promptly.
"We urge the neighboring countries to provide electricity until our government is recognized," said Ahmad Reshad, a Kabul resident.
"We urge the private companies, factories and people who have not paid their bills to pay their bills, so our electricity is not cut. Winter is approaching and we are facing serious problems," said Abdul Khabir, a Kabul resident.
Statistics show that Afghanistan pays around $22 million to $25 million a month to neighboring countries.
[FoxNews] Adela Raz, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the U.S., said in an interview that she does not believe President Biden cares about the fate of Afghan women left behind to live under Taliban rule
It’s true: he doesn’t...
and said she feels a level of guilt for persuading women to believe there was a future in the country.
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There was a future. But then Groper Joe was made President. He cares about as far as he can sniff or grope them.
And that goes for the rest of his administration too.
[Garowe] Malaysian holy warriors battling in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria are well documented, but Kelantanese Ahmad Mustakim Abdul Hamid is probably the first case involving al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in Africa.
The Somalia-based terrorist group is said to have many foreigners within its ranks, and even at a leadership level.
Influenced by what they read, mostly online, they joined the organization to fight the Somali government and its Æthiopian allies.
The current number of imported muscle in Somalia is unclear but in 2011, it was reported that there were even US citizens in the mix, mostly of Somali descent.
One report stated that the group recruited over 40 Americans and 20 Canadians to battle in Somalia.
Foreigners were recruited to serve as mercenaries and as propaganda tools because of their ability to speak English, for radicalization and recruitment.
But according to an article by David Shinn in 2010 for the US-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, top leaders then included those from 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... , Pakistain, Algeria, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh, India, Afghanistan, and Uganda.
"Al-Shabaab has developed one of the most effective recruitment programs found among Death Eater Islamist groups.
"It has been particularly successful in the large Somali diaspora in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia," he wrote.
The presence of foreigners, according to many analysts, has been both a boon and bane to al-Shabaab because it has led to differences and conflicts among the rank and file.
According to the National Counterterrorism Center in the US, in-fighting and shifting alliances were common.
"So, the desertion of Ahmad Mustakim in 2015 came as no surprise as he probably could not take the constant bickering inside the group.
"But he was arrested and tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for his attempt," a source added. Intelligence updates have indicated that al-Shabaab is now led by Ahmed Umar, also known as Ahmed Diriye and Abu Ubaidah, with a US$6mil (RM25mil) bounty following the death of Ahmed Abdi Godane in a US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in 2014.
[IsraelTimes] Azerbaijan denies allegations from Tehran that Israel’s military was in the Caucasus country during drills run by Iran’s army on their shared border.
The Iranian claims about Israel come after state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
last week showed tanks, howitzers and helicopters firing at targets in the northwest of the country.
Israel is a major arms supplier to Azerbaijan, which last autumn won a six-week war with neighbor Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
[DW] More than 9,000 people are stranded at military bases in Ramstein and Kaiserslautern. Washington suspended flights when measles were detected among evacuees landing in the US.
The Federal Interior Ministry in Berlin announced Monday that 9,139 Afghan refugees were currently stuck at US military bases in Germany owing to a suspension of evacuation flights by the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... Berlin's Foreign Ministry confirmed that the refugees were scheduled for evacuation but flights had been stopped in September after cases of measles were detected among Afghans arriving in the US. Berlin says none of the Afghans currently stranded at Ramstein Air Base and the Rhine Ordnance Barracks in Kaiserslautern had been promised admission to Germany.
Refugees housed at the bases have now received vaccinations against measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox according to the US military.
But not Covid-19? How odd.
The vaccination of more that 8,800 individuals was completed ahead of schedule on Sunday and carried out at the request of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The US is expected to resume flights this Friday. Ramstein serves as one of Washington's main flight hubs between Afghanistan — now controlled by the Islamist Taliban ...Arabic for students... — and the US, the other being in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Officials at Ramstein have confirmed only one case of measles among evacuees in their care. The US 86th Airlift Wing on Monday said: "Ramstein is equipped to expeditiously resume flights once given approval to do so."
Ramstein Air Base serves as the headquarters for the US Air Forces in Europe, Africa and for 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... Allied Air Command. The broader Kaiserslautern Military Community in and around the base is the largest US community overseas.
[Breitbart] The Polish government has sent at least 31,000 text messages to migrants near its border with Belarus telling them to go back to Minsk, stating that the Polish border is closed.
The text messages say in English, “The Polish border is closed. The Belarusian authorities lied to you. Go back to Minsk!” and give links to a site in English, French, Arabic, Russian, and Polish stating that migrants who cross the border illegally are subject to imprisonment.
The site also warns the migrants that adverse weather conditions at the border could place their safety at risk, particularly if migrants are sleeping outside and without any form of shelter, broadcaster FranceInfo reports.
The warning is not without precedent as five migrants have been found dead at the Polish-Belarusian border in recent weeks, with some migrants reportedly freezing to death as nighttime temperatures drop close to freezing.
Earlier this month, Poland declared a state of emergency at the border regions with Belarus and has since revealed that some of the migrants crossing illegally from Belarus have had radical Islamic propaganda in their possession.
Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński stated this week that the government would also be extending the state of emergency along the border by another 60 days.
Poland has blamed the Belarusian government of President Alexander Lukashenko for the surge in migrant arrivals, an estimated 5,000 attempted crossings since the start of September.
This week, European Union Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said that President Lukashenko was “desperate”, following actions imposed upon his regime after what many believe to have been the hijacking of a RyanAir flight that had a regime-critical journalist aboard in May.
[Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkish court sentenced a Kurdish politician who died four years ago to more than eight years in prison for his alleged links to an umbrella group linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), media affiliated with the group reported on Sunday.
Ahmet Onder was sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison in Hakkari province’s criminal court in the Kurdish-populated southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... during a trial of people accused of links to the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), Firat News Agency (ANF) reported. KCK is an umbrella group of a number of parties, including the PKK, which is deemed a terrorist organization by Ankara.
Onder died four years ago due to cancer. He was the head of communications in the People's Democratic Party (HDP), a pro-Kurdish party that top Ottoman Turkish officials have accused of being the political wing of the PKK, leading to the arrests of scores of their politicians - including former co-chairs and parliamentarians and members - in recent years on terror charges. HDP has denied any links to the PKK.
The PKK established the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), which soon became a target of the state, in 2007. Ottoman Turkish prosecutors launched a campaign dubbed the KCK Case, arresting and otherwise reprimanding anyone believed to be affiliated with the group.
Turkey has detained and sentenced scores of Kurdish politicians, activists and journalists in the last decade for their alleged links to the KCK.
In a case last year, 68 out of 79 people tried were found guilty on charges of membership in a terrorist organization for their alleged links to KCK.
The recent case put 30 people on trial, including Ramziya Yashar from HDP who was sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison over alleged "membership in a terrorist organization," local news reports said.
Yashar was the co-mayor of Yuksekova district, arrested in October 2019 along with a number of other HDP mayors in the Kurdish-majority areas during police raids.
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[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a supplementary chargesheet against two murderous Moslems of the Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen
...one of Pakistan’s ISI’s catspaws in Kashmir, TuM was founded in 1990. By the end of the decade they were on their fourth emir, and subsequently their limited membership has been mainly visiting Paks with a few locals for local flavour. They’ve been seen in the Kashmir Valley in the Beeru belt of Budgam district, Ganderbal, and parts of Srinagar, Anantnag and Pulwama, and gotten funding from the Saudi Arabian Harmain Islamic Foundation — one of the financiers of 9/11, among other little projects — as well as the ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba...
in connection with a conspiracy case registered at Poonch, 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.... The NIA has charged Zafar Iqbal based in Pakistain and Shaid Naveed. The accused persons were part of a deep-rooted criminal conspiracy hatched by Pakistain based handlers of the terror group and their associates based in Poonch and Kuwait.
The NIA says that they were planning on executing terror attacks in a bid to wage war against the Indian state. The accused were tasked to smuggle arms, ammunitions, explosives and narcotics, the NIA said. During the course of the investigations a large cache of arms, ammunitions, explosives, narcotics, flags, posters and other incriminating material were seized.
The probe revealed that Iqbal had sent funds through Naveed who at that time was based in Kuwait.
These funds were then sent to Poonch to carry out the plan. Further investigation into the case continues.
[Rudaw] As Iraq heads to the polls on October 10, a spotlight has fallen on the outsized influence neighbouring Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... wields - but also on the growing popular backlash against it.
The parliamentary vote is being held early as a concession to a pro-democracy movement that railed against an Iraqi political system it decried as inept, corrupt and beholden to Iran.
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[GREATERKASHMIR] The Paleostinian president hosted an Israeli Cabinet minister for a late-night meeting Sunday, in a new sign of slowly improving ties between the sides.
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz became the second top official to meet with Paleostinian 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.... since the new Israeli government took office in June. Defense Minister Benny Gantz also met with Abbas at his West Bank headquarters in August.
The new Israeli government is comprised of eight parties spanning the Israeli political spectrum, from far-right hardliners who oppose a Paleostinian state to dovish parties that support a two-state solution.
Horowitz, who was joined by other members of his Meretz party, including Arab Cabinet minister Esawi Frej, leads the most dovish faction in the coalition.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett comes from a small, hardline religious party, and he has ruled out the establishment of a Paleostinian state on his watch. But he has called for reducing frictions, primarily by taking steps to boost the Paleostinian economy.
According to the state-run Wafa news agency, Abbas stressed the importance of ending the Israeli occupation and achieving a just and comprehensive peace.
Abbas' government seeks the establishment of a Paleostinian state in the West Bank, Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and east Jerusalem territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.
Horowitz posted a picture of himself and Abbas on Twitter. We have a shared mission: to preserve the hope for peace, on the basis of a two-state solution," he said.
[AnNahar] An Iranian nuclear reactor being converted from heavy water production into a power generating research facility will be launched within a year, a front man for parliament's energy commission announced.
Under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and world powers, the Islamic republic shut down the original Arak reactor in Markazi province so that it could not produce military-grade plutonium.
It also pledged that a replacement of the original reactor with a new one would support "peaceful nuclear research".
Quoted on Sunday by the Fars news agency, Mustafa Nakhai, front man of the legislature's energy commission, said "the Arak IR-20 reactor will be launched in a year from now".
Nakhai said he was in turn quoting Mohammed Eslami, newly-appointed to head the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI).
He also quoted Eslami as saying the new IR-20 reactor at Arak will feed into the generation of a planned 8,000 MW of nuclear power, to be achieved by the construction of additional reactors, state news agency IRNA reported.
Nuclear chief Eslami also said in mid-September during a site visit to Arak that Iran wanted to establish the long-planned research facility "as quickly as possible".
The AEOI had said early this year that it would cold test the new reactor in the first three months of the Iranian year, which began on March 21.
The 2015 nuclear deal gave Iran sanctions relief in return for tight controls on its nuclear program, monitored by the UN.
Tehran has gradually rolled back its nuclear commitments since 2019, a year after then US president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... withdrew from the multilateral deal and began re-imposing sanctions.
Talks began in April in Vienna in a bid to bring the US back inside the deal, but the dialogue has been stalled since June, when ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi was elected as Iran's president.
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...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-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. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
DABS officials said they have asked UNAMA to provide $90 million to pay the debt, adding that if UNAMA does not provide it they might pressure those people who have not paid their electricity bills, even though many people cannot afford it.
[FoxNews] 
...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...
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
[Breitbart] The Polish government has sent at least 31,000 text messages to migrants near its border with 
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